Common Grounders,
It has been over a year since the last update. The time was used to dive deeper about what #commonground wants to accomplish with this space. During the pondering, many things happened. First, the moderator, Phillip Imanlihen, graduated from Regent University School of Law, where he was exposed to some of the greatest conservative minds, including faculty, students and members of the community. Most importantly, during this time, Phillip engaged in frank dialogues about our countries ideological and political divide. Phillip, after growing up in Chicago, attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and eventually moving to New York City where he attended one of the City Universities of New York, decided that Regent would, and did, give him a balance in perspective needed to navigate this new political and social landscape that a millennial like him has to navigate. It’s safe to say that Phillip has entrenched himself in both sides of this hypothetical “line” that divides and seems to now threaten our democracy, as we know it. Second, President Trump got elected, inaugurated, nominated and confirmed a Supreme Court Justice. Third, our politics are plain nasty. Recently, a Congressman from Louisiana, Steve Scalise and others, were ambushed at a GOP baseball practice, it’s bad!
But, as the great Theologian, Thomas Aquinas, said: “better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate” which leads to move from contemplation to delivery. Our goal, simply, is to find #commonground, thus, this space is meant to facilitate that goal. To facilitate that goal, we must create an online environment that allows Americans to realize that we all have #commongrond. To reach our goal, our space must do the following:
- It must find #commonground between this hypothetical “line” that has for so long divided us; so,
- this space will be for people with different ideas that can still find common ground for the greater good of our politics; plus,
- our space will be find where our politicians agree and highlight it; while
- finding ways to find #commonground on the policies that brings disagreement.
If we are able to find #commonground on issues in which we disagree, we are making progressive steps towards creating policies that works for all Americans. At Common Ground Analysis our goal is to find a place where, for example, Democrats and Republicans, minorities and law enforcement, organizations like the ACLU and the ACLJ, can interact and learn from each other to find #commonground.
Moving policies that affect everyday Americans forward while bringing congress’s approval rating out of a hole can only be done with #commonground.
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