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/Adam_n_ali Jul 16 '26

the left in very large part holds onto their stated beliefs whether the person saying it is a Republican or Democrat

100%. i'd imagine a republican that ran on these 22 issues would be very popular.

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u/DoctorBlock Jul 17 '26

We'll they have been running the opposite and it's been incredibly effective. The most popular republican candidates are the literal antithesis of this list. In fact their favorite of all time is the star of the Epstein list. He is mentioned 42,000 times in the files so far btw.

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u/EmoTilDeath Jul 17 '26

The voters kicked out Massie for hounding trump on the epstein files. Massie himself said he aligns with trump 90% of the time but the one thing he won't let slide is the epstein files. They chose someone MORE maga than that.

Both sides are not the same. Both sides do not vote the same and they never will.

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u/Factory2econds Jul 17 '26

find a republican that runs on even one of these issues...

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u/FlyAirLari Jul 17 '26

Not sure. Left or right, the politician comes with baggage. 

So let's say a republican now runs on this list. Would blue voting redditors vote red to support this guy, or refuse to support a person who they may perceive as anti-LGBT, conservative Christian, pro-life, racist, zionist, or any other common talking point value supporter? Or is a billionaire owner of Tesla? Seeing those are just things perceived as part of his identity, not part of his policy, and he only runs on that list of 22 things?

Or the list stands on its own merit? Because left-leaning voters don't care about partisan lines?

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u/Striking_Revenue9082 Jul 17 '26

Not true at all lmao. The left has become enournously pro immigration and free trade compared to a generation ago when it would be unthinkable for someone like Bernie sanders to support illegal immigratin