20240618.0001 - FINDING COMMON GROUND:

I need help and guidance from my more open-minded friends across the political aisle on the right.

How do I find common ground to those on the right and far right when they think I should NOT exist, when they think I am evil incarnate, when they think that the Divine Creator couldn't possibly have made me the way I am? In other words, what is the middle ground of being and not being?

And to really go out on a limb here, what is the middle ground of allow women the same freedoms as men (freedom to vote, freedom to control their own body, freedom to survive) or taking away those freedoms? Is there even a middle ground between having freedoms and not having freedoms? If we are supposed to be "THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE," but we actually REMOVE the freedom from a class or group of people, are we even living up to being the land of the free?

To be blunt, every one of the issues that I feel the need to take a stand on seems to come down to either life or death. Women having the right to control their own bodies or dying because Drs won't do an emergency operation because it crosses into abortive actions. People in the LGBTQ+ Community having the right to live or being denied that right which we have already seen people taking their own life or others killing us. What about basic education and allowing trained educators to teach without the threat of being jailed and without the threat of having their salaries cut to the bone! Or how about those same educators who never signed up to be adult human shields to the children in their protection.

Do children have the basic human right to live instead of being gunned down by hateful people? What is the middle ground on this issue? Isn't even one child dying one too many? Apparently, it isn't too many to those who hold the purse strings and the control!  

I don't even want to approach the ridiculousness of refusing to give school children free lunches, universal healthcare, affordable housing, livable wages, and so many other issues that it makes my head swim. So, how do I find common ground? How do I bridge the gap and cross the aisle and be able to say we can meet in the middle, when I can't see the middle of being or not being? Help? Please?