But those with apparent right-wing views or "traditional conservative values" of private enterprise and small government don't want to talk about those points any more because they've become so caught up in, and warped by, this culture war nonsense.
No, but it does mean that if you want to talk about those things you need to clearly distance yourself from the versions of them espoused by Trump and co.
Take small government for example. There's reasonable discussions to be had around the role of government in various things and how much taxpayer money should go towards them. But first you need to dissociate what you're saying from stuff like DOGE, because otherwise people will (entirely fairly) assume that you're just trying to stealth Trumpist talking points into a discussion and nobody's here for that.
Trump and the Republican party are barely even conservatives any more anyway, they're regressive authoritarians. They want things the way they were a hundred years ago, or more. But they inherited the conservative label, and so it's necessary to be clear when talking about conservative topics that you're not associating yourself with them.
The Democrats are functionally the conservatives, they make noises about progressive things but they've shown that they absolutely will not make any major changes to the system. They like things the way they are. That's conservatism, the reluctance to change.
There is no progressive party in the US, as far as I can tell. The Democrats have a few progressive voices like Bernie Sanders, because it's a two party system and there's nowhere else for them to go. But there's nowhere near enough progressives in the party to even start to pressure for minor concessions.
Remember that the Nazi Party was officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party. They were hardly socialist, but they grew out of a socialist party. Still, if you're talking about socialism every so often someone will bring up that the Nazis were socialists, and this is 80+ years after the fact. If the Nazi Party was currently in power and you wanted to talk about socialism, you'd need to be VERY clear who you were positioning yourself in support of.
The same is true of Trump and conservatism. Trump Republicans are (arguably) not conservatives, but if you want to talk about conservative topics you need to call out that you understand that and are not simply parroting whatever Trump's latest brain fart was.
I'd still suspect that many of us here in this apparent echo chamber don't all actually agree on topics such as healthcare, education, services or energy and we could (and still do) have discussions about them but those aren't the main talking points whether I or you like it or not.
People probably don't agree on the specific ways to address these things, but I suspect that most people are roughly on the same page as to what they would like the ultimate outcomes to be. These things should be available to pretty much everyone at reasonable cost.
After that it starts getting pretty into the weeds about actual implementation, and unless you're an expert in the field it rapidly gets beyond the point of being able to have a reasonably informed opinion on the matter. That's why the government has whole departments of experts to manage these things and even they don't necessarily agree on the optimal path. The idea that a bunch of randos on the internets would agree on something they probably know next to nothing about doesn't mean anything other than we're not all experts in multiple major fields of governance.
We don't agree on how the government should be run but we agree on how it shouldn't be run; we want the egotripping, power-mad fascist babies out of the room so adults can actually do some governing.
You say this, but apparently a significant proportion of Americans do not feel like this. They wanted the egotripping, power-mad fascist baby as their Supreme Leader. This didn't come out of nowhere, this was what they voted for. They just thought that the leopard wouldn't eat their faces, as if that hasn't been a meme for a solid decade.
I think you'd find less agreement on this than on something like healthcare. But I'm on the upside down side of the world so maybe it looks wonky from down here.
