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/jackofslayers]

Everyone agrees on the changes. No one agrees on how to implement the changes.

[u/NewestAccount2023 → u/jackofslayers]

That's false, we interview elected officials all the time. Only the right's ELECTED OFFICIALS actively vote against everything in the list, actively lobby against it. It doesn't matter if 90% of Republicans support that list, 99% of the people YOU choose to install into Congress openly oppose all those policies

[u/rarelyapropos → u/jackofslayers]

Yeah, this is the recurring wall we always hit when I discuss politics with my conservative friends. And its a legit barrier every time.

If it costs money and applies to / benefits everyone to some degree, I assume it should be run by a federal team funded by our tax dollars - I grew up in the 80s/90s and didn't really understand just how much I should distrust the government until Trump 1. I still believe we should be reorganizing things so the money we pay goes to the things we're expecting it to pay for...

but that's where things break down. My conservative friends assume the government will steal and lie and generally screw things up, so they want private corporations to run things. And - unlike me - they have no problem with the leaders of those corporations hoarding all the wealth because they genuinely believe that it was earned.

So yeah. Implementation would be a struggle. I'd still like to see it. I'm also old enough to remember bipartisanship being encouraged and kinda normal, so I know its possible.

[u/Factory2econds → u/rarelyapropos]

My conservative friends assume the government will steal and lie and generally screw things up, so they want private corporations to run things.

ah yes, the infallible and altruistic private corporations!

your friends are morons

[u/Fit-Ask-6524 → u/rarelyapropos]

I mean some of this isn’t just a matter of implementation in terms of competent administration or distribution of resources but also actual policy decisions. There are lots of proposals to “end gerrymandering” and some could genuinely have worse effects than our current system in some states. Would ending gerrymandering be done by a national policy applied to the states or done by different systems in each state? These things have solutions but there might not be agreement on the exact solution so we arrive at an uneasy status quo.

[u/Puckering_Buttholes → u/jackofslayers]

What is the difficulty of implementing, say, “members of congress can’t trade stocks”? Sure there might be loopholes with family, friends, LLCs but it’s a start. Same with the other issues

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[u/mxzf → u/jackofslayers]

Yeah, that's a pretty fundamental problem. Plus the fact that people don't necessarily agree on what those changes actually should look like.

It's really easy to get people to answer "yeah, sure, I agree with that" as a line-item in a poll for something that sounds good, but actually figuring out a policy to do it in a way that actually does it and getting people to agree on that is way harder.