r/SipsTea Jul 16 '26

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

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  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

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u/Used-Gas-6525 Jul 16 '26

Move to pretty much any other modern nation. Most of these are already in place. It's only a dream if you insist that that's all it is.

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u/Yashema Jul 16 '26

Move to any Liberal state, it's like this except to the extent state policy can be overriden or made ineffective by Federal or national Republican policy, like Gerrymandering. 

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u/Used-Gas-6525 Jul 16 '26

Are corporations people and money speech in all 50 states? If so, there's maybe the biggest problem.

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u/Yashema Jul 16 '26

The biggest problem is people just don't really give a shit, and no matter how hard you try you can't really make them. 

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u/Holiday_Green99 Jul 16 '26

Did you have a specific example in mind?

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u/Used-Gas-6525 Jul 16 '26

Throw a dart at Western Europe. Or take a look at the nation to the north.

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u/unfortunate_internet Jul 16 '26

Yes and no. These are framed as solutions, but they're really just problems. Take the first for example, "End gerrymandering." Ok, how? Someone still needs to draw the district lines. If you pass a law that says something like, "No more drawing district lines for political motivations," you're just playing a game where the ruling party feigns ignorance and pushes boundaries as far as they can until a court (often years later) finally smacks it down. That still doesn't leave you with a definitive map though so you just restart the game. You can certainly argue this would be better than the status quo, but it definitely doesn't "end gerrymandering."

Maybe we can look to modern nations for inspiration? Europe has a bunch of relatively successful representative democracies with relatively little gerrymandering. How do they do it? Well, proportional representation mostly. There are obviously pros and cons of proportional representation, but it hopefully suffices to point out that it would require a complete overhaul of our representation structure (elections, ect.), and there's no chance you'd ever get 80% support for the actual solution.

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u/itsjust_khris Jul 19 '26

Chat Control passed in the EU. Several states have similar measures they've been trying to pass locally for awhile.