Common

What is in the heart?  Is it the same for everyone or do our hearts' desires differ?  Yes and no.

Things have changed.  Liberal and conservative labels have shifted.  Perhaps better, the masks have fallen and we see people as they truly are.

There has been a lot of talk recently concerning Star Trek and several other sci-fi franchises.  They have morphed into cultural Marxist miasmas, bent on destroying original intent and replacing it with collectivist matrix.

Please search the web for all the nuances of how culture is subverted.  There is still ample example.  There is a piquant point I'm making.

I sent a note to an actor re Star Trek.  This person was known to be beyond liberal, certainly leftist.

I noted we were divergent politically, but that ST had always been a place for many to gather and enjoy the shows.  It appealed to many if not all. ST traditionally was NOT political.  Yes, major issues were tackled on TOS and subsequent shows.  But it was left up to the viewer what to decide, what to think.  That's good storytelling to me, no matter the medium.

The actor responded that EVERYTHING was politics, inre it was the foundation of everything.  That's the quintessential collectivist view.

And there was the obligatory slamming of the President, including all the tired put downs.  I refuse to reiterate that bilge.  BTW, we have a President who learned from his mistakes, as we all should.  And there is an unfathomable faith in Freedom together with an enthusiasm to restore the Republic.  That is the quintessential way of those who proclaim individual Liberty.

I have no problem with fiction that can illustrate said Freedom.  It must be truly fair/balanced, for if it is, there is no doubt how fatal collectivism is and how diametrically opposed to all that is right, free and light about us and the US.  And for the matter of that, for the rest of the world.  Success where Liberty lives and desolation elsewhere.

So for characters like that guy, there is indeed nothing in common, no common ground.  Collectivists are intractable in their fatalism.  They live in a world of lies and half truths because there is nothing for them to defend against the truth.

Look up common.  See its nuances.  I look to familiarity.  We know truths.  We live them.

Unfortunately, lies and half truths, along with the commensurate mud slinging, are all too common amongst collectivists.

Let that be common knowledge.