Just the truth.
You have to work with what you have. Republican forms of government require people to build commonalities that they can work from. Our governmental system demands that the people find points they can work together on or nothing happens, and things fall apart.
So we build consensus, coalitions, and find points we can agree to work towards.
No factions on the conservative side of the fence have enough power to do it by themselves. Trying to means no convervative vision wins...all lose.
(I suspect the same thing is true on the dem side, or at least it used to be.)
So, what are our commonalities? I would boil them down more or less like this:
A desire for less government intrusion into life.
A respect for life (at least to some degree - pushing for individual rights requires some of this.)
A desire for security from our enemies.
A respect for the goals of the founders and the constitution and what it means.
We all have different interpretations of how these things should be done. A lot of people call for reduced government spending. I see budget cutting without reorganizing and merging Federal government agencies as futile, because most of them are now running too lean, and jobs they should do easily aren't getting done because they don't have the properly trained manpower because they are too many of them with overlapping tasks, and not enough funds to make any of them work well (and too much money being pumped into Homeland Security without rational goals and planning) and conflicting mandates. But my concept would require merging offices sometimes under different cabinet divisions, and that is so politically fraught with turf protecting politics, that I think we'll let the country crash and burn first. Sigh. But if we could bite the bullet, we could decide what we really need, downsize in intelligent ways, and have the programs that remain work well.
Won't happen in the current climate.
Still, that doesn't stop me from agreeing that stupid spending and piling on of new types of government regulation is a bad thing. Commonality. Mutual overlapping visions of how it ought to work give us areas we can work together to get things done.