Key political issues
RELATING than DEBATING
DEBATING = How can I convince others to ease my prioritized needs?
RELATING = What is the prioritized need behind each other's stance?
Issue by issue, let's do more
Why debate when you can relate?
Skip guarded debating by appreciating how we experience our needs differently. Liberals and conservatives experience a contrary priority of needs. Political differences only exist because of a difference in prioritized needs no debate can change.
DEBATE - stay divided
Debating leaves you stuck guarding your vulnerable priority of needs. You can debate how we publicly should respect such needs, but the needs themselves are not open to debate. Needs shall persist whether we disagree with them or not.
RELATE - stay connected
Relating enables you to lower your guard. You connect how well you can respect their priority of needs by how well they respect yours. Not exactly as a quid pro quo, but more as a condition for relating to each other on a general level.
Politics is the art of generalizing how to agreeably address needs in different situations. Liberals and conservatives live largely in different situations, which creates a different priority of needs.
You cannot generalize your solutions to other people's different set of problems. You can win more at politics by relating directly to each other's prioritized needs.
Unify your politics around differing needs. Harmonize your politics to the needs you cannot change. Apply this here to eight key political issues.
Mouse over each issue's Unifying Politics image to find more. Click on each of the next images to go my three LinkedIn Pulse article delving deeper into that political issue.
Download the free Harmony Politics spreadsheet to personally interact with each of these eight political issues. Contact us to apply this to other political issues. Together, we'll replace anger with love.
IMMIGRATION
DEBATE - stay divided
EASY ENTRY
National boundaries are arbitrary and discriminate mostly against poor people of color.
VETTED ENTRY
Anyone seeking to move here should merit that opportunity in a carefully vetted process.
We rely on borders to protect us from foreign threats.
We fear racial bias fuels most immigra-tion opposition.
RELATE - stay connected
The more you you appreciate our fear of racial discrimination, the easier we can appreciate your reliance on protective borders.
The more you you appreciate our reliance on protective borders, the easier we can appreciate your fear of racial discrimination.
Applying Unifying Politics to the issue of immigration.
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Harmonize your immigration politics to each other's prioritizing immigration needs.
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Harmonize diverse immigration views to the spectrum of differing need priorities.
To apply this to your specific needs, contact me for guidance, support, advocacy or whatever you need.
CLIMATE CHANGE
DEBATE - stay divided
REGULATION
We must protect the earth from our greenhouse gasses before this climate crisis destroys lives.
NATURAL FIX
Nature can correct itself better than our arrogant meddling that risks making things worse.
We need to trust the invisible hand of the economy.
We fear our habitat is being destroyed by selfish interests.
RELATE - stay connected
The more you appreciate our need to protect fragile habitats, the easier we can understand your need to protect jobs.
The more you understand our need to protect jobs, the easier we can appreciate your need to protect fragile habitats.
Applying Unifying Politics to issue of climate change.
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Harmonize your climate change politics to each other's prioritizing environmental needs.
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Harmonize diverse climate change views to the spectrum of differing need priorities.
To apply this to your specific needs, contact me for guidance, support, advocacy or whatever you need.
GUN SAFETY
DEBATE - stay divided
GUN CONTROL
We must pass stricter gun control to protect our kids from deranged shooters.
GUN RIGHTS
We must not react to violent shooters by punishing all responsible gun owners.
We need our arms to faithfully provide for our own.
We fear our kids could be the next ones shot.
RELATE - stay connected
The more you see how school shootings traumatize us, the easier we can see your need to protect yourselves with arms.
The more you see our need to protect ourselves with arms, the easier we can see how school shootings traumatize you.
Applying Unifying Politics to the issue of gun safety.
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Harmonize your gun safety politics to each other's prioritizing gun safety needs.
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Harmonize diverse gun safety views to the spectrum of differing need priorities.
To apply this to your specific needs, contact me for guidance, support, advocacy or whatever you need.
ABORTION
DEBATE - stay divided
PRO-CHOICE
A woman’s body is her right and responsibility, not to be dictated by government interference.
PRO-LIFE
We must give a voice to the voiceless unborn, which could once have been you or me.
We need to protect women’s access to reproductive health.
We fear our own daughters regretting this irreversible act.
RELATE - stay connected
The more you respect women’s autonomy from social pressures, the easier we can respect your daughters’ pressured decisions.
The more you respect our daughters’ pressured decisions, the easier we can respect women’s autonomy from social pressures.
Applying Unifying Politics to the issue of abortion.
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Harmonize your abortion politics to each other's prioritizing abortion-related needs.
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Harmonize diverse abortion views to the spectrum of differing need priorities.
To apply this to your specific needs, contact me for guidance, support, advocacy or whatever you need.
HEALTHCARE
DEBATE - stay divided
GUARANTEED
Healthcare is a universal right, not a privilege only available to those who can afford it.
MARKETPLACE
Healthcare quality is best when market competition forces each provider to perform their best.
We rely on market competition to create quality healthcare.
We need healthcare first, to contribute economically.
RELATE - stay connected
The more you respect our need to first improve our poor health, the easier we can respect your need for quality healthcare.
The more you respect our need for quality healthcare, the easier we can respect your need to first improve your poor health.
Applying Unifying Politics to the issue of healthcare.
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Harmonize your healthcare politics to each other's prioritizing healthcare needs.
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Harmonize diverse healthcare views to the spectrum of differing need priorities.
To apply this to your specific needs, contact me for guidance, support, advocacy or whatever you need.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
DEBATE - stay divided
TRANSFORM
Replace our current biased adversarial process with more accountable outcomes.
REFORM
Support our first responders and court workers tasked to serve and protect us from threats.
We’re tired of being targeted by biased police and courts.
We rely on the criminal justice system to protect us.
RELATE - stay connected
The more you respect our need to be safe from a biased system, the easier we can respect your need to be kept safe from threats.
The more you respect our need to be kept safe from threats, the easier to respect your need to be safe from a biased system.
Applying Unifying Politics to the issue of criminal justice.
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Harmonize your criminal justice politics to each other's prioritizing criminal justice needs.
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Harmonize diverse criminal justice views to the spectrum of differing need priorities.
To apply this to your specific needs, contact me for guidance, support, advocacy or whatever you need.
ECONOMY
DEBATE - stay divided
MORE REGULATED
Capitalism brings out our worst selfish elements, denying re-sources to the less competitive.
LESS REGULATED
Socialism brings out our worst collectivist tendencies, making us all equally poor.
We rely on govern-ment to force busi-nesses to play fair.
We rely on a free market to produce what we use.
RELATE - stay connected
The more you see our need to be free from market exploitation, the easier we can see your need for a productive economy.
The more you see our need for a productive economy, the easier we can see your need to be free from market exploitation.
Applying Unifying Politics to the issue of economy.
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Harmonize your economy politics to each other's prioritizing economic needs.
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Harmonize diverse economy views to the spectrum of differing need priorities.
To apply this to your specific needs, contact me for guidance, support, advocacy or whatever you need.
RACISM
DEBATE - stay divided
COMMON SYSTEMIC
Racial bias is baked into our institutions, affecting us in ways not easy to peg down.
RARE PERSONAL
Judging people by skin color is mostly a thing of the past, and could cost one their career.
We daily endure less visible forms or racial discrimination.
We risk your bias of accusing our careless slights as racist.
RELATE - stay connected
The more you recognize how systems racially exclude us, the easier we can recognize how claiming racism enflames bias.
The more you recognize how claiming racism enflames bias, the easier we can recognize how systems racially exclude you.
Applying Unifying Politics to the issue of racism.
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Harmonize your racism politics to each other's prioritizing race relating needs.
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Harmonize diverse racism views to the spectrum of differing need priorities.
To apply this to your specific needs, contact me for guidance, support, advocacy or whatever you need.
Unifying Politics to Harmony Politics
Harmony Politics puts Unifying Politics into action. Download the free Harmony Politics spreadsheet tool to see how our different priority of needs shapes our politics. See how this creates an inward psychosocial orientation we express outwardly as politics.
See how Harmony Politics demonstrates we each experience a psychosocial orientation.
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See how left leaning liberals express a WIDE orientation.
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See how right leaning conservatives express a DEEP orientation.
Discover a range or orientations from the far-left to the far-right. Let go of the debunked idea that politics stems from carefully reasoned arguments for what is best for all. Let each other be vulnerably honest about our range of differing needs.
See how this plays out in these eight key political issue. For each of these issues,
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turn arguing into listening,
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turn rejecting into affirming, and
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turn demanding into offering.
In short, turn hate into love, one issue at a time. If you don’t, who will?
OTHER POLITICAL ISSUES
What other political issues could you apply Unifying Politics or apply Harmony Politics?
Value Politics
Value Relating Consulting can help you apply Unifying Politics or apply Harmony Politics to any political issue of your choosing. We offer Value Politics to help you turn any divisive political issue into opportunities to connect better with one another.
