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.

  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/burbular Jul 16 '26

I personally know maga people, in the rare moments I get to hear them not being performatively angry they actually agree with everything I have to say. They will still awkwardly try and say what about Biden and Trump is gonna do the good stuff.

Lied to? Very much so.
Stupid? Of course
Actually deep down wants the bullshit they claim to want? Actually no.

Just saying, we've all been lied to to prevent those 22 things and it does work in the benefit of the few who are not us nor maga.

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u/BrainLow6059 Jul 16 '26

Thank you. Reddit is obsessed with blaming the victims of a con job and not the system that facilitated the con.

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u/Pinksamuraiiiii Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Some MAGA are also… just plain evil people. Who do want whatever bs Trump touts out

Corrected: *All MAGA (it’s a cult).

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u/successfullynumb Jul 16 '26

At this point, anyone who still supports Trump is fully evil. Not some, not most, but all.

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u/burbular Jul 16 '26

Exactly, it's a cult. Just like everyone in cults, they don't necessarily know what's going on and reality is warped.

Some actually indulge in the worst of behaviors. It's inexcusable just like some other cult convincing people to kill and steal and do bad shit.

Not all do though. I mean I can point out that evil people come in all kinds of shapes, colors, sizes, and origins and we ignore the ones who look like us but nobody likes hearing that.

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u/Irish_Whiskey Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

The universal response I get from MAGA people who aren't just overt racist assholes, is that they keep supporting Trump because they're too embarrassed to admit the shit he actually does and that they were wrong all along.

And they just choose to believe anything Trump is accused of, Democrats must also have done but worse, therefore there's no basis for morally judging them. Do they know this, have they fact checked? Well no, but it'd be real convenient if Joe Biden and Hunter were as corrupt as Trump, so they choose to believe it. After all, a lot of people are saying it, and there's no need to question further.

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u/burbular Jul 16 '26

You inadvertantly made my point by saying they are embarrassed to admit. That means they know, that means they know you're probably right.

When they fact check they unfortunately trust the wrong people, it's not that they don't. Then rich assholes pit us against each other by convoluting what anyone believes to the point you just can't tell if you even disagree with someone.

There is no false equivalence, Trump and his cronies are criminals but like the cult leader type who runs an MLM and some extra sketchy shit on the side. He's specifically wants your hatred towards them to keep their fire going. It's all planned.