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Political tension has and will likely always exist, but there is always the question of how loose or how tight the tension between the opposing parties will be. However, two studies of left-winged and right-winged causes in Spain found that there is common ground between them. The results found that people both on the left and right felt a strong moral obligation to protect traditionally progressive issues such as environmental policy and gender equality. Not only that, the conservatives in the studies found their leftists counterparts to be more morally focused than they are as a group.

The two Spanish studies had enlisted psychology students and their acquaintances for the online studies. The first one asked 650 participants to rate their sense of moral obligation to defend one of 12 political topics randomly assigned, each one strongly associated either important to the left (such as the environment) or the right (like national security). They also asked participants their political orientation so they could focus in on the very left-winged and the very-right winged participants, and had them rate how strongly they agreed or disagreed with various statements like “Defending ____ is a deep moral imperative” and the like.