r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 18h ago
Feels good man Based on national US polling, there are 22 issues that 80% of Americans agree on. Here is the list.
End gerrymandering
Ban Wall Street from buying single-family homes
Ban congresspeople from becoming lobbyists
Ban congresspeople from trading stocks
Create a minimum tax for billionaires
Close the loopholes that billionaires use to avoid taxes
Establish congressional term limits
Ban dark money donations from political campaigns
Implement universal paid family leave
End forever wars by repealing the Authorization for the Use of Military Force
Release the full Epstein files, redacting only the victims' information
Ban corporate PACs by overturning Citizens United
Require mandatory disclosure for all organizations donating to political campaigns
Require mandatory police body cams
Ban junk fees
Allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices
Fully fund Social Security by extending the existing tax to those making over $400,000 a year
Ban adversarial foreign nations from buying American farmland
Improve Veterans Health Care access
Establish common-sense data privacy laws (similar to those in European countries)
Enshrine the right to repair
Audit the Pentagon and penalize them with a 0.5% budget reduction if they fail the audit
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u/AnyGivenSundas 18h ago
Straight to the top
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u/ShaggysGTI 15h ago
Ain’t shit gonna happen till the citizens unite. Until then we need to let the 80% know we need to demand this!
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u/Ch_dogs_only 12h ago
We need to collectively get our heads out of our asses and quit with voting party lines when reasonable people have excellent points. Idk what party this guy is, and I'd vote for him. These are serious issues and America would be better if we could make this work.
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u/theapeboy 14h ago
Wait...you're saying we need MORE Citizens United?!
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u/ShaggysGTI 13h ago
Exactly what I’m saying! The fucking gall of them to call the decision that is appalling.
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u/Informal_Ad4399 12h ago
More voter turnout!
Stop letting the loud ass few dictate the direction. The boomers and out of touch idiots make damned sure to vote and we pay the price.
Vote federal. Vote state. Vote local. All the way down to the smallest thing. School boards. City positions. All of it is under attack. All.of.it!
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u/TheresNoHurry 18h ago
Get me in the screenshot please
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u/SadAd8761 15h ago
We need more of us to run for Congress. The ones already in office are corrupt beyond fixing. Only one way to get rid of them.
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u/Brother_J_La_la 13h ago
I really wish I could, I would love to push for some real change. I don't even know how one starts at 50, lol.
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u/Millsd1982 17h ago
NEEDS ADDED: No president can serve over the life expectancy of their country!
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u/scubamari 15h ago
Absolutely. And while we are at it, can we have some minimum political requirements to run for president? Like having served the public and working across ideological lines in any form - council member, mayor, state congress, whatever.
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u/biblioprof 15h ago
Or take a math class?
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u/CaptOblivious 15h ago
How about pass the citizenship test?
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u/Ok-Inevitable819 14h ago
Shit at this point basic literacy seems like a big ask
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u/n3qml 14h ago
How about not be a convicted felon? It’s a pretty low bar I know, but let’s go.
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u/Anotsurei 12h ago
How about we actually follow the law about how people who have engaged in insurrection are not allowed to hold the office of president? We should add the felony part, I agree, but until we follow other laws that are already on the books, new ones just don’t matter.
As a matter of fact none of the laws matter in a country where certain people can just pick and choose which ones they like and which they don’t and all the branches of government just roll with it.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 16h ago
I want to add, no one over 62 need apply for any office! :)
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u/eezmo 16h ago
You goofball redditors. We finally get someone focused on our agreements instead of arguments and you all meme this shit to the top.
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u/NOTcreative- 17h ago
I doubt 80% of Americans know 50% of what he's talking about.
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u/Sienile 18h ago edited 16h ago
Where's the original post from so I can sign the petition?
edit: Found it!
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u/ExiledCanuck 18h ago edited 12h ago
Crazy this isn’t linked to here
Edit: hey! Thanks for doing the work and finding the link. Legend!
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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 13h ago
Seems to be completely fucked for me. I managed to use the link inside the reddit app but it wouldn't let me select my address from a list to auto-populate the district code field(which is not easy to find if you don't know it), and when I did fill in the info it timed out trying to submit.
So I tried on my desktop, both waterfox and google chrome won't load the page. Internet is completely fine.
Hopefully it's getting overloaded by people, but I kinda feel like it's getting DDOS'd
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u/Maximum-Cover- 11h ago
Reddit crashed the site, it does that when stuff posted here becomes popular.
Keep tab open and try tomorrow.
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u/DHubbage 16h ago
We gave it the ol Reddit hug of death.
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u/Vuelhering 15h ago edited 15h ago
Yeah, I hadn't seen that happen for a while. It's been hugged.
The problem I have is this is a random guy, apparently not a congressman.
Thus, there is no bill.
He urges you to call a congressman to rally support for a bill, but it appears to be vapor right now. How about a bill number starting with HR or S?Wait, after 5 min it responded. There is a bill of sorts. All of these items are individual bills. Not sure if that's better or worse, because any one of them can be vetoed, which would be harder as a package.
Edit: many of these are past bills that died in committee or the senate. These are/might be not current bills but examples of such bills that never passed. I guess that makes sense.
- Ban congress trading stocks
- repeal AUMF
- Lobbying ban
- tax ultra-wealthy
- Ban corporate PACs
- Audit Pentagon
- Medicare drug negotiation
- Ban gerrymanding
- Protect farmland
- Ban corporate house ownership
- Fund Social Security
- Mandatory bodycams
- Ban Dark Money in politics
- Paid family leave
- toothless release epstein files bill doesn't have criminal penalties
- Trace all large political donations
- tax loopholes
- Establish right to repair
- Ban Junk/hidden fees
- Term limits
- Mandate data privacy
- Mandates better care for veterans
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u/Ashamed-Injury-1983 15h ago
Imo better because fuck riders. That shit needs to be added.
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u/Twolephthands 11h ago
I love that and agree. No sneaky stuff. No hidden backdoor addons. So much garbage has passed through in large sweeping bills. There needs to be a control on that. Its the "Make America Safe" bill but it guts any sort of compensation for the folks that actually make America what it is. Let the people vote. I agree with everything on that list and would 100% vote for it. Let them be individual bills and watch what happens. People are often smarter than they seem .
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u/hue-goh 17h ago
Anyone find the post yet? I want to sign!
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u/Sienile 16h ago
Found it!
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u/Daetiralso 16h ago
Someone else has apparently found it too. Clicked the link, went to the page, but none of the buttons work so I can not sign it.
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u/cuhulainn 16h ago
Also found it and posted these links in a comment that might just get buried. So here it is again
I found the original, in case anyone is interested in taking action:
Link to this video on insta
Sign the pledge
https://www.instagram.com/the.80.percent.us/5
u/Sienile 16h ago
I was hoping that yours was a clone site that people could use since the one I linked went down, but seems they point to the same spot. Probably too many people trying to sign at once. Anyone having issues, try later.
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u/cuhulainn 16h ago
Yeah, unintentional DDOS attack. Sorry dudes. Hopefully they increase server capacity in response and this gets (and can handle) the attention it deserves (even if nothing comes of it right now)
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u/AdLocal1490 11h ago
Its interesting that this is basically the democratic party platform yet all these republicans vote against it
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u/okcboomer87 18h ago
I support everything here.
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u/Away_Stock_2012 18h ago
Yeah but most Americans will throw this list in the garbage if their candidate just promises to hurt the people they don't like
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u/DeathWray 17h ago
I think releasing the unredacted Epstein files will hurt the people I don't like plenty actually.
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u/Away_Stock_2012 17h ago
How about a war with Iran instead.
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u/Western-Sport500 16h ago
Releasing the information won't do as much as many think; it needs to go further with the investigation and prosecution which is what I want to see.
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u/ElGuaco 16h ago
Politicians are largely elected on political wedge issues so that they can avoid working on all these things.
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u/googleduck 17h ago
Yeah these are empty values that they check in a poll but don't actually care about. Ask Americans how much they value democracy and then look at how many of those people voted for Trump 3 fucking times.
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u/kisk22 16h ago
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.
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u/Mikecd 15h ago
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.
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u/Prcrstntr 14h ago
Instead of term limits, just increase the house size, drastically. It hasn't changed in 100 years.
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u/Ruzhyo04 16h ago
A political candidate that came out with this as their list of priorities would get my vote, regardless of party or any other factors. Of course, they wouldn't get that far, because of... well you know, half the things on this list.
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u/Bludypoo 15h ago
almost every item on this list has been in legislation that democrats have tried to pass. Banning Junk fees was signed in to law under Biden, actually. Trump got rid of it a few months ago.
Almost every item on this list has been actively voted against by republicans.
Voters could have these things if they paid attention.
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u/Fit-Ask-6524 12h ago
There’s much here I support in principle but I would oppose certain implementations of. I think generalized referenda like these without specific implementation is often very useless.
End gerrymandering. Bro how though?
What counts as “wall street” when determining who can own a single family home? What counts as ownership? Can Wall Street still fund large development projects building single family homes or do the plots need to be purchased before they can sell them?
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u/breads33 𝙑𝙄𝙋 18h ago
everyone agrees on these changes except the ppl that can make the changes…
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u/PolicyWonka 17h ago
I mean the issue is the second you actually put a real face to the proposal, support basically just collapses along partisan lines.
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u/NewestAccount2023 15h ago
This only happens to the right, provably. They change on a dime for dozens of topics, the left in very large part holds onto their stated beliefs whether the person saying it is a Republican or Democrat unlike the people on the right.
It's well studied and there's a reason there's no sources and no actual examples in this whole thread, you guys can only talk vaguely because that's the ONLY way to keep up the "both sides" facade. If you tried to find a real facts and figures and sources to keep up your both sides you'd change your tune with only two hours of reading actual facts and statements interviews books bills passed and blocked etc written and said by each side
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u/Column_A_Column_B 12h ago
Look into studies about political leanings (left or right) and authoritarian tendencies. And the value of loyalty to the ingroup for people on the left and people on the right.
Basically, the right has more authoritarian tendencies. Then overwhelmingly loyalty to the ingroup is a big conservative value but to the left it's basically a non-issue.
If you ever have a chance to take a political psychology course this stuff is part of the curriculum. It's very well established.
https://studylib.net/doc/7652484/above-and-below-left-right--ideological-narratives-and-moral?p=4
(Unfortunately the source doesn't have the graphs in it but it is NOT behind a paywall.)
The above study looks at 5 groups of virtues and how important they are to different political ideologies.
1.Harm/care: basic concerns for the suffering of others, including virtues of caring and compassion.
2.Fairness/reciprocity: concerns about unfair treatment, inequality, and more abstract notions of justice.
3.Ingroup/loyalty: concerns related to obligations of group membership, such as loyalty, self- sacrifice and vigilance against betrayal.
4.Authority/respect: concerns related to social order and the obligations of hierarchical relationships, such as obedience, respect, and proper role fulfillment.
5.Purity/sanctity: concerns about physical and spiritual contagion, including virtues of chastity, wholesomeness and control of desires.
Basically, Harm and Fairness are the only two value groups important to liberals while for conservatives Harm & Fairness both matter just as much as Ingroup/Loyalty, Authority/Respect, and Purity. For non-religious conservatives, Ingroup/Loyalty & Authority/Respect are the most important values.
One of the consequences of this is that reframing an issue to appeal to the target audience's values can have really funny results. Conservatives are more likely to support gay rights if they are reminded that many military servicemembers are LGBT and that resonates with them better than arguments about what is fair or harmful about denying LGBT rights.
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u/Adam_n_ali 15h ago
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 11h ago
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/PolicyWonka 15h ago
I never said it was a both sides issue. As you said, it’s predominantly on one side of the aisle.
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u/v_a_n_d_e_l_a_y 15h ago
The bigger problem is that half of the people who support these changes aren't willing to vote for the party more likely to institute them.
The Dems aren't perfect. But they have done more for these causes (or, at the very least, have done the least against them). But of these 80%, how many would simply refuse to every vote for a Democrat? Probably a lot.
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u/Ok_Sample269 17h ago
Yeah, republicans are against every one of these proposals.
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u/Disimpaction 16h ago
There was about three or four that they might have lukewarm support of. But while I was watching it I was mentally counting everyone that Republicans have actively fought against and it's at least 15 of the 22.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 11h ago
The politicians pretty much are. The voters might agree with a few but that matters dick all when they say they want them less than they want a Republican in office over a Democrat.
Also no source at all as far as I'm concerned he just pulled all that out of his ass. 80% according to whom? Because last general election showed it's not even close to 80%, in fact 33% don't vote so at best it could only ever be 67% of Americans and that would be the entire voting population, and not only are the people who want to do pretty much everything on the last the black sheep of their own party, the other party isn't gonna do those things either. Democratic primaries would be a lot different if 80% of Americans supported all these things. Unless he's saying 80% of Americans support at least one thing but that's a given with the Epstein files in the list.
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u/jackofslayers 16h ago
Everyone agrees on the changes. No one agrees on how to implement the changes.
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u/NewestAccount2023 15h ago
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
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u/rarelyapropos 15h ago
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.
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u/Puckering_Buttholes 15h ago
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/seantellsyou 17h ago
The full Epstein files are supposed to have been released with the victims redacted. Every day they arent, this administration is breaking the law.. instead they released SOME of them with their buddies names redacted.. explicityl violating the Epstein Act
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u/Training_Ruin3151 14h ago
Trump isnt eligible to be the president under the 14th amendment. So like the constitution is already null and void. Every single member of our goverent from the top to bottom is committng treason.
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u/crummy 3h ago
huh? what does the 14th amendment have to do with trump's eligibility to be president?
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u/Used_Security5145 18h ago
Government: "best I can do is diarrhea lettuce"
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u/linds360 15h ago
Hey now, a lot of us also can't go outside or breathe the air for the past two days.
Credit where credit is due!
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u/MysticMarauder69 14h ago
What are you talking about? This is just like the good old days from before the Clean Air Act. It really takes me back.
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u/TheRealDrSarcasmo 17h ago
Ah, 22 issues I'll never see meaningful reform on my lifetime.
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u/geobomb 18h ago
Also banning "Flock cameras" (Automatic license plate readers)
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u/Relevant-Pianist6663 17h ago
Flock cameras are quite different than LPRs. I fully support LPRs and frankly they have been around for decades.
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u/geobomb 17h ago
But that's what Flock cameras are called. What is your official term for Flock cameras? Because Flock is a brand.
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u/SnooWalruses3948 17h ago
I don't believe that all of these policies have 80% support amongst Americans.
If so, I'd be suspect of the polling methodology.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Bid9737 18h ago edited 17h ago
There’s a handful of these issues that if you solve them, the rest will come naturally.
Ex: kill citizens united + kill gerrymandering + term limits -> suddenly common sense laws will be enacted
It’s like a disease and you need to treat the disease not the symptoms
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u/Relevant-Pianist6663 17h ago
Nearly 1/3 rd of these are about congress/ voting/ political campaigns. I agree that with these in place the rest will follow shortly after. Its mainly just that in order to get those to pass you need to be in power and if you are in power then these directly harm you.
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u/kisk22 16h ago
Term limits are stupid. Voters are the people who should enforce term limits. When that politicians time is up, their voters should vote them out. When you actually look in to term limits you'd realized we'd be left with an inexperienced government. Term limits for congress are slopulism.
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u/Gars0n 15h ago
Totally agree. Term limits are one of those "common sense" reforms that backfire in practice. Michigan has them for the state legislature and it's terrible.
I understand the gut feeling it is meant to address. The public has an interest in preventing legislators from entrenching themselves in power.
However, term limits force legislators to turn over so they don't gain the expertise that comes from long term experience. Thus, they lean even more on external experts ie lobbyists. That's the trouble. In practice term limits are a transfer of power away from elected officials and towards lobbyists.
As much as people are concerned that politicians can concentrate too much power, the lobbyist swamp around DC is definitely is definitely the wrong crowd to give it to instead.
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u/socialistrob 14h ago
I partially agree. I think the only problem with letting voters dictate the time is that parties are very good about propping up incumbents and clearing the field of any challengers. A Democrat running against a Democratic incumbent in a deep blue area is basically having to declare war on the party itself for that seat and if they lose their career is often ruined meanwhile a lot of interest groups will rally behind the incumbent because they think the incumbent is more likely to win and they value that relationship.
Yes technically anyone can run in the primaries but there is a reason we keep seeing incumbents in their 70s and 80s get reelected and it's because the political establishment clears the field for them so by the time voters end up getting their ballots the choice is often between an unqualified crazy person and an ancient incumbent.
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u/Darren_Red 18h ago
Its fun to dream
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u/Used-Gas-6525 18h ago
Move to pretty much any other modern nation. Most of these are already in place. It's only a dream if you insist that that's all it is.
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u/Yashema 16h ago
Move to any Liberal state, it's like this except to the extent state policy can be overriden or made ineffective by Federal or national Republican policy, like Gerrymandering.
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u/baz8771 18h ago
Oh wow, imagine that, when you stop polluting the waters with wedge issues, we’re a socialist country.
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u/TheNibbaNator 16h ago
literally what about america is socialist? do you even know what socialism is?
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u/Doodiecarrier 16h ago
None of these policies are socialist.
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u/Sennten 15h ago
Several of these policies are explicitly anti-capitalist though, and in modern American politics any of the millions of things that are arent capitalist must be "socialist"
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u/Happy_Condition_3794 15h ago
Only of these policies call for reduction in private property and that’s banning wallstreet from owning single family homes.
Which isn’t that big of a deal because multi-family/ commercial is more profitable anyway, but that’s the only anti-capitalist position here.
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u/ShoogleHS 12h ago
No they aren't. Regulated capitalism is still capitalism. Capitalism means private ownership of the means of production and socialism means common ownership of the means of production. That's all. It doesn't matter what the tax rates are, it doesn't matter if there are strong public services or benefits, it doesn't matter how strong employee rights are: it's who owns what.
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u/Walker1921S 15h ago
The fuck? Not a single one of those issues or policies has anything close to do with socialism. What the fuck are you talking about.
Socialism is when the workers (or by proxy the government) owns the means of production.
What does that have to do with term limits, lobbyists, age requirements, body cams, etc.
Some of the most corrupt, autocratic, and government surveillance countries in the world were under socialist regimes.
Wake the fuck up.
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u/ImRightImRight 17h ago
What do you think socialism means?
Hint: none of this
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u/Irish_Whiskey 17h ago
I agree with you, but also these are exactly the policies that Fox News and the GOP keep calling socialism or communism.
Most of these points are either taxing the rich, banning corporations from influencing elections, and regulating/restricting businesses for social benefit.
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u/playdough87 17h ago
You let your guard down and suddenly the bathroom will be filled with people that aren't just like you and you're not really sure if they sit to pee because they need to or just because their feet are sore and it's honestly more hugenic anyways. You really willing to endure that just for some two dozen universally supported improvements to daily life and society? S/
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u/MurkDiesel 17h ago
this is unsubstantiated bullshit
80% of americans do not agree on 80% of those issues
nowhere even close
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u/ImurderREALITY 15h ago
I bet 80% of Americans don't even understand or think about most of these issues
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u/kcsween74 18h ago
SCOTUs Term Limits and the number of seats to equal the number of circuit courts.
Immediate primary of congress people should the voters decide their rep isn't performing as stated in their campaign speeches. A predetermined, required number of signatures would start the process. The voters decide.
Congress doesn't get paid during shutdowns, and see #24.
Corporate tax cuts shall be tied to their performance in employee wages/retention/benefits.
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u/successfullynumb 18h ago
I'm going to need to see the polling data because I find it hard to believe any MAGA would support a few of these
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u/PolicyWonka 17h ago
This is a known phenomenon. Many more people will voice support for resolving an issue, but they disagree on how to solve it.
So you might have someone say “I support universal paid family leave” but they don’t want the government to be involved. Or they think it’s a state issue to solve. Or they think 1 week is good enough while you think 4 weeks is the minimum.
Hell, you even have videos of this type of thing happening in real time. Someone gives an Obama quote to a MAGA, says it’s from Trump — they agree with the quote. Interviewer reveals it’s an Obama quote and suddenly they flip flop and it’s the worst thing ever.
Just the act of attaching a politician’s name to something will decrease the support for that thing.
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u/Used-Gas-6525 18h ago
Only like 30% of the population is ride or die MAGA.
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u/Irish_Whiskey 18h ago
Trump has a 40% approval rating with registered voters.
Are some of these people wildly misinformed or just really hate left wing groups rather than being pure MAGA? Sure. But it's got the same result. Trump could rape a dog on the White House lawn on national TV and they'll still support him.
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u/ultimatedelman 17h ago
Registered voters only represent less than half of the population. If this poll represents everyone of voting age, including those unregistered to vote, that pool will be much larger
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u/jackofslayers 16h ago
I do not give a flying fuck about the political opinions of people who do not vote.
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u/ultimatedelman 16h ago
Neither do I, I'm just saying that the voting population is not the overall population, it's a subset, and the 80% approval is of the superset.
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u/m0neydee 18h ago
I consider myself center right and have no problem with any of these.
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u/burbular 18h ago
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/VTHokie2020 17h ago
Some of these are so broad lmao
“80% of Americans believe everyone should be happy! Ban universal sadness”
Wowzers
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u/Danktizzle 16h ago
And the corporation vetted candidates are like
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u/Werkin-ITT7 10h ago
Yeah this is brilliant. Americans are actually a lot smarter and more united than I usually give them credit for.
I agree with all 22 items.
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 17h ago
The pentagon budget cut for failing the audit needs to come exclusively from the salaries of senior officers civilian DoD administrators.
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u/deadpool_pewpew 16h ago
80% of American's might say this in a poll, but they don't actually care about this. At least we don't care enough to do anything about it, not even simply by changing the way they vote. We tell politicians what we care about with our votes and our dollars and right now we are telling them to keep on doing what they are doing.
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u/Professional_Ad705 11h ago
80% of Americans Agree. The other 20% are the politicians and millionaires/billionaires lol.
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u/Irish_Whiskey 18h ago
I can't help but notice that every single one of these is something the left supports and most of them are bills Democrats support and try to pass, while the GOP is firmly against them.
It's almost like the GOP has to keep fear of immigrants and trans people in people's minds to distract from more people actually agreeing with Sanders and AOC than Trump and McConnell on these issues.
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u/linguistic-fuckery 16h ago
Both those “GOP fears” you mentioned are 80/20 issues ☕️
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u/Training-Promise1379 13h ago
fr dude, all but 2 of these are core issues for the Democratic Socialists of America. They are nearly all policies that politicians like Mamdani, Rabb, Abdul Al-Sayed and other DSA candidates run on. This stuff is the DSA its what they exist for
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u/ExiledCanuck 18h ago
I saw a post somewhere today here on Reddit that showed quite a few of these ideas and what percentage of people/politicians supported them. (May have been on r/dataisbeautiful ? Can’t remember)
Indeed many were supported by democratic supporters and politicians alike, as well as by republican supporters, just not supported by republican politicians. It was quite stark to see that many republican voters aren’t being fairly represented by their elected representatives. Very strange to be honest.
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u/UL-07 18h ago
Funny how Voter ID was left out when it has more support than most of these issues.
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u/Irish_Whiskey 17h ago
I'm totally fine with Voter ID, as long as everyone is assigned a free Voter ID, it's easy to replace, we keep mail in voting (which also has a large majority of support), and we have a national holiday for voting.
Right now the GOP plan for voter ID literally involved banning most forms of legal ID, shutting down places where people can replace or get them, and letting local political operatives challenge IDs to stop voting selectively. It's not at all subtle that it's got nothing to do with the non-existent problem of voting fraud, and everything to do with giving the GOP power to stop particular people from voting.
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u/Disimpaction 16h ago
I really don't know why the Democrats don't propose a national free voter ID. They should steal this issue to actually make voting easier for all.
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u/thegameisafoooooot 18h ago
If only this was a democracy where the people's vote actually counted. Ah well, next time maybe.
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u/IEC21 18h ago
Im going to be the asshole that points out that quite a few of these are just to vague to be actionable.
"Ban gerrymandering" - if we had a way to do that we would have. The problem is that no matter how you organize the districts you will favour one party or the other by virtue of your method.
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u/MrVeazey 17h ago
Legislate the creation of an explicitly nonpartisan committee to draw up election maps to minimize packing and consolidate districts geographically so they don't just sprawl all over the place.
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u/InfanticideAquifer 13h ago
What does "non-partisan committee" even mean? Words don't fix problems. You can't peer inside people's brains to see what they going to base their decisions on. And you can't look at the final result and be sure about that either. Calling something "non-partisan" doesn't solve anything.
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u/mxzf 13h ago
Yeah, that doesn't fix gerrymandering. "Nonpartisan committees" are still made up of people with biases, so it's always going to be more of a matter of balancing out biases as much as is practical.
And geographically compact districts (regardless of which compactness metric you use) can be quite biased without it being immediately obvious. There are a lot of subtle ways to bias maps.
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u/spondgbob 16h ago
How in the world do you oppose any of these?!
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u/mxzf 14h ago
For a chunk of them, the question is more about how they would actually be implemented in a way that doesn't cause bigger problems somewhere else instead.
For example "end gerrymandering" sounds nice, but some degree of gerrymandering is actually required by the VRA, to create some majority-minority districts (areas where minorities have a majority, rather than being drowned out by the majority). The issue is when gerrymandering is done with political motivations. There's also the fact that actually detecting gerrymandering to strike it down is hard, because it's easy to create maps that look "fair" but are actually gerrymandered.
Term limits are another one. They have a bad habit of increasing corruption in a lot of situations, where the experience ends up accumulating in unelected positions because the elected representatives keep changing every few years, and the elected people end up incentivized to line themselves up a job for when their term limits are up.
I like the ideas behind a lot of them, but many are so loosely defined that it's easy to get people to support them at face value without considering what doing so would actually look like.
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u/Wrong_Excitement221 18h ago
I know it's a very unpopular opinion, but pretty much only against term limits.. it needs to be fixed in other ways.. like trading stocks.. Fix the corruption that makes a congress person nearly impossible to vote out of office. prevent the cancer, not let it run its course for a 8 years before getting rid of it.
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u/MrVeazey 17h ago
Term limits in Congress without fixing all the other problems would just leave us with a Congress that has no institutional experience or memory and they'd hand all the writing of legislation over to the lobbyists.
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u/ArtichokeKooky6361 17h ago
Bro forget Medicare for All
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u/PaladinHalfling 16h ago
Because not 80% of the country agrees with that need, unfortunately.
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u/Soggy-Dragonfruit171 18h ago
23…..universal healthcare
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u/SumasFlats 14h ago
The fact it's not on this list speaks to the absolute success of insurance company propaganda and lobbying. Ridiculous that the vast majority of Americans don't understand both the financial and practical benefits of universal healthcare.
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u/EastZealousideal7352 18h ago
These issues are all significantly more difficult than they seem, but not impossible.
It would take time, likely years for a well organized and properly motivated government to implement these fixes.
Instead the government will spend the next few years doing literally nothing useful, which is exactly what they want.
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u/Comfortable-Policy70 17h ago
Which of those 22 issues are important enough that 60% of voters will cast their ballots based solely on that issue?
Support for a generic description of an issue does not translate into a vote for a specific program backed by an actual candidate
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u/Xecular_Official 16h ago
I'm surprised overturning the patriot act isn't in there
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u/NorthP503 16h ago
There’s a few I don’t know enough about to agree right away, but 18 of them I’m all for.
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u/fatbob42 16h ago
A few of these are kind of populist nonsense. They don’t necessarily do any harm but probably don’t fix the problems they purport to fix e.g. 2, 18, 21.
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u/AlterExpertise101 15h ago
Ooh, and next we can vote for ponies for everyone! Wheeee!
Like, honestly, I get why this shit is popular but can we for the love of all that is good stop pretending like this is remotely feasible? We couldn't even get a half-decent human being elected to the Presidency in 2 of the last 3 Presidential elections!
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u/MaximusHomerdrive 15h ago
I see we still don't care about healthcare for some reason and are fine with hospitals bankrupting us into the streets to go die somewhere else. That's super.
I thought it was going to be #1, but it didn't even crack the top 22. People care more about the right to repair and the Pentagon budget more than their own health and well being? tf?
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u/arcbe 14h ago
He's right I do agree with all of these. I also did not know about number 18. What the fuck do you mean adversarial nations can buy our farmland?
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u/gilligan54 14h ago
16 is weak but I get it. Universal healthcare with private premium add-ons seems much better for all involved.
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u/Think-Chair-1938 14h ago
Go one step further. Unless you are a human being with a birth certificate, and not a corporation with some paperwork, you don't get to participate in politics whatsoever. No donations. No lobbying. No think-tanks or "institutes" that write bills that the reps bring to the floor.
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u/No_Milk_4143 14h ago
If only this is where legislature started. Start with popular reform as a prerequisite for changing the law.
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u/JoshAllentown 14h ago
Most of these are popular because they're vague.
If you went through the specific "closing the loopholes" it would be like making charitable donations taxable, which is wildly unpopular.
And of course:
Number 2: Institutional investors are ALREADY banned from buying single family houses.
Number 5: There is ALREADY an alternative minimum tax for high earners.
Number 15: There are ALREADY rules against junk fees...but it's also such a vague term you can always say the job isn't done.
Number 16: Medicare can ALREADY currently negotiate drug prices.
And...Number 12 can not be done with a law it has to be a Constitutional amendment.
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u/MrsMiterSaw 14h ago
And yet Republican voters will still vote for whoever Donald Trump tells them to, even if they oppose every one of these things.
Because blaming immigrants for housing problems is more important than actually solving housing problems.
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u/Direct_Show_3321 14h ago
He forgot Aipac and the millitary merger. Why do I feel like this was Aipac funded???????????
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