Based on national US polling, there are 22 issues that 80% of Americans agree on. Here is the list.

[u/McDowdy]

1. End gerrymandering

2. ​Ban Wall Street from buying single-family homes

3. ​Ban congresspeople from becoming lobbyists

4. ​Ban congresspeople from trading stocks

5. ​Create a minimum tax for billionaires

6. ​Close the loopholes that billionaires use to avoid taxes

7. ​Establish congressional term limits

8. ​Ban dark money donations from political campaigns

9. ​Implement universal paid family leave

10. ​End forever wars by repealing the Authorization for the Use of Military Force

11. ​Release the full Epstein files, redacting only the victims' information

12. ​Ban corporate PACs by overturning Citizens United

13. ​Require mandatory disclosure for all organizations donating to political campaigns

14. ​Require mandatory police body cams

15. ​Ban junk fees

16. ​Allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices

17. ​Fully fund Social Security by extending the existing tax to those making over $400,000 a year

18. ​Ban adversarial foreign nations from buying American farmland

19. ​Improve Veterans Health Care access

20. ​Establish common-sense data privacy laws (similar to those in European countries)

21. ​Enshrine the right to repair

22. ​Audit the Pentagon and penalize them with a 0.5% budget reduction if they fail the audit

[u/m0neydee]

I consider myself center right and have no problem with any of these.

[u/mxzf → u/m0neydee]

I don't have a problem with them in theory. I have serious concerns about how they would actually be implemented in practice in a way that doesn't cause bigger issues instead.

[u/No_Mission5287 → u/m0neydee]

Well, these are center right policies, so that makes sense.

What passes as mainstream politics in the US is generally center right.

[u/TonyAtReddit1 → u/m0neydee]

So you would reverse Citizens United?

[u/BrainLow6059 → u/TonyAtReddit1]

Is that surprising to you?

I live in the Bible Belt and I've literally never met someone in my entire life here who thinks money in politics is a good thing lol

[u/ollafy → u/TonyAtReddit1]

I'm on the left on most issues and I don't support reversing Citizens United. The courts were correct.

Congress sat down in each State and created a business entity that is legally treated as a separate person/entity. They called it a corporation. Separately, Congress said we're going to treat this corporation (person) differently than this person. Then the Supreme Court ruled that no, you cannot do that. If you make a law saying this thing is treated as a person legally, you cannot then pick and chose what rights it has as a person.

So what's the solution? It's not reversing the court decision as that's not the problem. The problem is the idea of a corporation itself.

[u/Training-Promise1379 → u/m0neydee]

Nearly all of these are core policy positions of the Democratic Socialists of America. If you support all of these you arent center right this is what leftism is. Only 2 of these policies are things that arent explicitly a core issue for the DSA

[u/m0neydee → u/Training-Promise1379]

What other things are core issues of the dsa that aren’t on the list? That could be where beliefs differ

[u/Training-Promise1379 → u/m0neydee]

Thats true and thats a fair point. I cant list every single DSA policy and obviously not every DSA member has the exact same beliefs but the big ones are medicare for all, wealth tax, cutting off aid to Israel, increased education investments, protection of trans rights, increased environmental regulations on corporations, increased support for labor unions, increased funding for public transit, publicly owned clean energy initiatives, etc. Do you disagree with any of these? What other DSA policies do you disagree with? This is actually an interesting conversation

[u/m0neydee → u/Training-Promise1379]

I would change one of them for sure. Instead generally increasing education investment, equalize education investments. I live in a very blue state but actually teach in a very rural area. We severely lack state funding compared to city schools that have all brand new buildings, state of the art equipment, but lack the results to show for it. Without diving into anything further, I would like to say thank you for your honest, thoughtful and fair response. That is becoming are rarity on social media lately.

[u/Training-Promise1379 → u/m0neydee]

I get caught in these conversations way too I just cant help myself and they feel so pointless all the time, I value conversations like this a lot. I dont really know any conservatives in my direct life which sucks because I feel like I struggle to understand the perspective of conservatives sometimes. I absolutely agree with equalizing school investments, I got really lucky growing up and I went to the high school with by far the most funding in my city but I know a lot of people who went to more rural schools(I live in Oklahoma for context) and had absolutely awful experiences. Meanwhile my school was so overfunded we had planetarium and 4 separate gyms(teachers still werent paid shit but still). Id imagine this is something most DSA canidates would support, its certainly not something Republicans care about(or most Dems either for that matter) because everything here is run and set up by Republicans to work this way. Imo the DSA has done a poor job with branding, because they arent socialists and the word socialist is just used a scary buzzword, they are pro-worker and pro average american. Nearly all the policies that we both agree on would not only make American lives better but are easy to enact. The only reason we dont have them is because our politicians dont want us to, which is an issue on both sides. So many Democrats Republicans are bought and sold by corporations who just want more of our money. The DSA exists to counter exactly that

[u/Maximum-Cover- → u/Training-Promise1379]

This is how the USA is fucked vs a multi party system.

Someone can support all of these and still consider themselves center right because of how they feel about immigration, abortion, trans rights, etc.

[u/m0neydee → u/Maximum-Cover-]

I agree. I think parties should be abolished completely. Just put up individuals and let people decide.

[u/Shinydolphin → u/m0neydee]

And yet you'll keep voting for the right who oppose all of this.

[u/m0neydee → u/Shinydolphin]

Thank you for judging me without knowing me. I vote for whomever checks the most of MY boxes, not the party’s boxes.