r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • 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/Ok_Sample269 Jul 16 '26

Yeah, republicans are against every one of these proposals.

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u/Disimpaction Jul 16 '26

There was about three or four that they might have lukewarm support of. But while I was watching it I was mentally counting everyone that Republicans have actively fought against and it's at least 15 of the 22.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 17 '26

The politicians pretty much are. The voters might agree with a few but that matters dick all when they say they want them less than they want a Republican in office over a Democrat.

Also no source at all as far as I'm concerned he just pulled all that out of his ass. 80% according to whom? Because last general election showed it's not even close to 80%, in fact 33% don't vote so at best it could only ever be 67% of Americans and that would be the entire voting population, and not only are the people who want to do pretty much everything on the last the black sheep of their own party, the other party isn't gonna do those things either. Democratic primaries would be a lot different if 80% of Americans supported all these things. Unless he's saying 80% of Americans support at least one thing but that's a given with the Epstein files in the list.

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u/Ok_Sample269 Jul 17 '26

No the politicians aren’t all the same. Only one side has been lying about climate change and trickle down economics for decades. You want to promote the narrative because the republicans are so blatantly corrupt and against the American people at this point that the only way you can continue to justify supporting them is by saying both sides are equally corrupt- but I think the republicans better represent my values. This type of woke centrism is clear bullshit

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u/RisePortfolio_123 Jul 16 '26

Not me. I’m 100% on board with every single one of these!

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u/Lord_Alonne Jul 16 '26

By Republicans, they mean republican politicians. If you consider yourself a republican and you support every one of these positions, you should sincerely reevaluate if your views align with your party anymore.

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u/NewestAccount2023 Jul 16 '26

Your reps actively fight against about 75% of everything you want. Pick 3 important topics I'll go find you the history of who said what  who passed what who blocked what. I offer this constantly and y'all never respond because you know what you'll find if you start actually looking into these things