A survey finds Americans on the right and the left overwhelmingly agree on several core values but only a minority of each group believes the other side shares them.
"When you get worried is when polarization turns into dehumanization — a sense that the other is somehow less than human, or evil, or unable to share your decent human values," said Nealin Parker, executive director of Common Ground USA, a group that works to resolve conflict by building trust among Americans. "That should be concerning to anybody, because those are the necessary psychological steps to doing harm to each other.
When asked if members of the opposing party thought those values were very or extremely important, however, about two-thirds of respondents said no.
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