You won’t find many instances in modern life where there’s near-unanimous agreement on something. It doesn’t really matter what the issue is. You’re probably not going to find a consensus. There was a recent poll that supposedly showed that around a third of millennials believe the Earth is flat, for example. Whatever explains this phenomenon — whether it’s the Internet, drug use, a large-scale mental health crisis, or some combination of the three — it’s hard to deny that it exists. As a country, we simply can’t agree on much. We weren’t always like this. Not so long ago, presidential candidates like Nixon and Reagan could win 49 states. Try picturing that happening again in your lifetime. Very hard to imagine.
But despite this sea change in American politics, there are still some issues that remain uncontroversial. There aren’t many, but they do exist. And…
