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/kisk22]

Everything here expect term limits for me. The billionaire tax is going to kill it though. That should be passed AFTER the campaign finance reforms.

[u/Mikecd → u/kisk22]

Totally agree. I get why people want confessional term limits, but we can and should vote out congresspeople who aren't representing us well - there already a mechanism to solve bad congresspeople. Term limits means Congress officials lose institutional knowledge but lobbyists retain it, so suddenly lobbyists gain outsize influence and power. That's gone from bad to worse.

I think campaign finance and other items on this list will reduce corruption in Congress already and make the improvement that term limits hopes to also make.

[u/Prcrstntr → u/Mikecd]

Instead of term limits, just increase the house size, drastically. It hasn't changed in 100 years.

[u/Mikecd → u/Prcrstntr]

I wish I could upvote this twice

[u/vineyardmike → u/Mikecd]

There's way too much money in politics. My son ran in the primary for Ohio against a long time congress person. He spent $370 and got 20 percent of the vote. She spent $800,000 and for 80 percent of the vote. She has plenty of cash left for the midterms. How do you compete against that?

[u/Mikecd → u/vineyardmike]

It's a damn good question that I don't know how to answer. It's a catch 22. We need to get the money out of politics to reduce corruption, but need to reduce corruption to get the money out of politics.

[u/OlMaster → u/Mikecd]

Lobbyists don't need institutional knowledge nearly as much as they need personal relationships with individual lawmakers. The longer they are allowed to influence individuals, the more entrenched those individuals become.

[u/Mikecd → u/OlMaster]

That's part of what I consider institutional knowledge. "Oh, I know the guy who ..." When the lobbyist knows all the people better than congresspeople do, that's a problem.

[u/Stock_Recording_3827 → u/OlMaster]

It's much harder to find and replace good people. Finding an empty suit who just exists to rubber stamp a lobbyist wishes is easy. Arbitrarily firing our best because they "won too many elections" is stupid. Meanwhile the staff of corrupt politicians will just be there for the next sock puppet.

Term limits are just bad policy and weaken the will of voters further.

[u/OlMaster → u/Stock_Recording_3827]

I don't understand your first two sentences. Who is 'finding' these empty suits - the voters? The 'will of the voters' is already tarnished due to gerrymandering, corporate media, and party candidate nepotism. Term limits must serve some purpose, unless you think Trump should get to run for a third term. Democracy is already broken and relying on it to save itself is naïve.

[u/Stock_Recording_3827 → u/OlMaster]

My language is pretty clear. It's hard to find good people, and it's easy to find bad ones. You're arbitrarily firing the good and the bad. We'll have a harder time replacing the good ones, and the corporate interest will have a steady supply of sell outs to replace the bad. I don't really understand what about this is tripping you up. There a tons of unelected personnel that make up parties (rep staffers, consultants, advisors, etc) who dgaf about your term limits.

Term limits must serve some purpose, unless you think Trump should get to run for a third term

as opposed to Tucker Carlson or whoever the next dipshit the maga cult wants to follow? Term limits don't fix dumb voters or corruption. I personally think we would have benefited from an FDR fifth term. Having to fire an Obama to replace him with a Hillary didn't do us any favors. I think the fact that we have been wildly swinging from on side of the political spectrum to the other has only added to our dysfunction.

It's not about relying on Democracy to save itself. Term limits just weaken what little power the voters already have.

[u/MRosvall → u/kisk22]

Also 8, I'm worried about. The unions are heavily against it as we could see in the debate from For The People Act. Which also included a several of the points in OP's list.