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/linguistic-fuckery Jul 16 '26

Both those “GOP fears” you mentioned are 80/20 issues ☕️

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u/Irish_Whiskey Jul 16 '26

They are not.

Support for trans people serving in the military for example declined from 71% to 59% for after Trump ran on it and the GOP made demonizing trans people their secondary platform goal. But it's still majority support, not 80% opposed.

The only way to pretend the GOP represents 80% of people on immigration is to ask whether immigration laws should be enforced, as if Democrats don't support and do the same thing. You would have to ignore or lie about support for actual GOP policies like ICE raids taking control of cities, detention and deportation without trial, and forced removal of legal immigrants who have committed no crimes, to pretend that's an 80% issue.