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What's funny here are that the example issues you listed are exactly the issues that the vast majority of Americans actually do agree on. Those are wedge issues that were carefully crafted by political parties to try and create a division in popular opinion when there isn't one. It's a fairly common political strategy nowadays.

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That is probably a sign you are trapped in an echo chamber.

Those three issues are polling in the 50-60% range on Pew research, and tend to fluctuate heavily based on recent events and question wording.

not saying it is, but what happens if polling is an echo chamber too?

> (abortion, firearms, lgbtq, etc)

> exactly the issues that the vast majority of Americans actually do agree on.

cite?

You think the vast majority of Americans agree on abortion? I'm pretty sure that, no, they do not. The division is real, not just a political strategy.

Since 1975 the percentage of Americans that think abortion should be illegal in all cases has hovered around 15-20%

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx

Abortion isn't an either or position. There are quite a few position and this stat only shows a single one: 15-20% believe it should be illegal in all cases. What about the subset who believe it should only be legal for rape victims. Or only plan B style drugs (I'm not sure how the linked data classifies the responses, but some people do consider such drugs on the same level as abortion). Or only by first trimester. Or only by second trimester. Or until birth? Or some other position that I am not able to remember off the top of my head?

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