If people cannot agree on basic ideology they can agree on what makes good character. There is no liberal or conservative version of the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule. There is no liberal or conservative version of the Constitution, the moral principles behind which the federal government ideally operates. Donald Trump is President and we can loathe him or love him and anything in between, but such is opinion.
Reality can have a liberal or conservative bias depending upon which side of the political spectrum is most deluded at the time, but all in all basic truth does not have a partisan bias. The laws of logic and some basic realities of arithmetic, geometry, and physics remain the same, at least as wise people understand them, from antiquity. Thus
Fluffy is a cat
Cats are predators
Fluffy is a predator
is valid. In contrast
Cats are predators
Snakes are predators
cannot lead me to any conclusion except that cats and snakes are both predators. To a mouse, the difference between a cat or a snake is moot; both are to be avoided because both are death. Cats are obviously not snakes and snakes are not cats. We are humans and not mice.
OK, triangles that have the same length of side between two angles just the same are themselves duplicates (as learned by ancient carpenters), and every whole number except one or zero has a distinct set of prime numbers (thus 210 is the product of 2,3,5 and 7 as primes even though 14 and 15 would also work -- but 14 and 15 are not prime numbers). A floating object displaces mass as much of the object in which it floats until it floats in equilibrium.
There have been discoveries of basic reality since Euclid and Archimedes, even as late as 1905 (general relativity based upon the rigid reality of the velocity of electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum) -- but those basic discoveries have been irrefutable. The Nazis hated Einstein for being Jewish and even put a price on his life, and disparaged relativity for its association with a Jew and even came out with a pamphlet called "A Hundred Against Einstein" to which Einstein retorted, "One (proof to the contrary) would be enough".
Only fools think that they can refute basic reality, and if they claim to do so for religious reasons they defy God Almighty. If God created the Universe or allowed it to come into being, then He certainly established the mathematical and physical laws by which the universe operates. The Universe makes some sense. Lying does not after it gets exposed to the burning truth.
Reality can have a liberal or conservative bias depending upon which side of the political spectrum is most deluded at the time, but all in all basic truth does not have a partisan bias. The laws of logic and some basic realities of arithmetic, geometry, and physics remain the same, at least as wise people understand them, from antiquity. Thus
Fluffy is a cat
Cats are predators
Fluffy is a predator
is valid. In contrast
Cats are predators
Snakes are predators
cannot lead me to any conclusion except that cats and snakes are both predators. To a mouse, the difference between a cat or a snake is moot; both are to be avoided because both are death. Cats are obviously not snakes and snakes are not cats. We are humans and not mice.
OK, triangles that have the same length of side between two angles just the same are themselves duplicates (as learned by ancient carpenters), and every whole number except one or zero has a distinct set of prime numbers (thus 210 is the product of 2,3,5 and 7 as primes even though 14 and 15 would also work -- but 14 and 15 are not prime numbers). A floating object displaces mass as much of the object in which it floats until it floats in equilibrium.
There have been discoveries of basic reality since Euclid and Archimedes, even as late as 1905 (general relativity based upon the rigid reality of the velocity of electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum) -- but those basic discoveries have been irrefutable. The Nazis hated Einstein for being Jewish and even put a price on his life, and disparaged relativity for its association with a Jew and even came out with a pamphlet called "A Hundred Against Einstein" to which Einstein retorted, "One (proof to the contrary) would be enough".
Only fools think that they can refute basic reality, and if they claim to do so for religious reasons they defy God Almighty. If God created the Universe or allowed it to come into being, then He certainly established the mathematical and physical laws by which the universe operates. The Universe makes some sense. Lying does not after it gets exposed to the burning truth.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.