Politics for the Politically Disillusioned

Congress is broken with polarization

Each party is obsessed with making the other party look bad, rather than solving the major issues facing our nation. Partisan gridlock rules, so major issues go unsolved.

Most Americans are in the sensible middle yet no longer have a voice in Washington DC

43% of U.S. adults identify themselves as independent

What we all agree on:

  • Keeping our communities safe

  • Keeping our nation secure

  • Ensuring our kids have the same opportunities we had

What we worry about

  • You work hard, paid your dues, but it seems harder, not easier, to make ends meet.

  • What can be done about these brazen “smash and grab” looting?

  • Why are our great cities like San Francisco experiencing a doom loop?

What’s our goal? A movement

  • Tell your Congressman/woman to join the Problem Solvers Caucus - 64 House members equally divided between Democrats and Republicans - empower them to forge compromise for the Sensible Middle.

  • I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

    Thomas Jefferson during contentious 1800 election

  • Liberty under the law.

    Margaret Thatcher, UK Prime Minister, per Steve Hilton

  • Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall.

    Ronald Reagan, US President

  • America stands for the opportunity that you are given here in this country to make it great. But you have to put in the work, nobody's gonna give it to you.

    Anonymous teacher, Sequoia Union High School District

  • We're embarrassed about things we should be proud of, and proud of things we should be embarrassed about.

    Jerry Seinfeld on privilege

  • You don't have the right to not be offended.

    Condolezza Rice, former Secretary of State

Read quick blogs about common ground policy and history on key issues.