[emodendroket]

Indeed, the points on which mainstream American "right" and "left" media agree with each other are more numerous than the points on which they disagree.

[losteric]

Well I should hope so. A nation cannot exist without some social cohesion, Americans need to (and do) agree on most issues.

[emodendroket]

In a lot of the bipartisan Washington consensus stuff Beltway opinion is in lockstep with itself but not with average Americans.

[wu-ikkyu]

>The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented by neither party and against powerless millions around the world.

-Howard Zinn, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress