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Trump | |
8 (73%) |
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Inequality | |
0 (0%) |
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Climate Change | |
3 (27%) |
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Health Care | |
0 (0%) |
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Terrorism | |
0 (0%) |
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Crime | |
0 (0%) |
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Other | |
0 (0%) |
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safeinOhio
(35,352 posts)Blues Heron
(6,698 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(100,852 posts)JHB
(37,619 posts)One word that puts so many other words on that list.
WhiteTara
(30,656 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Even if democracy in the us doesn’t. Climate change is the existential threat. We can’t do enough about with republicans in power but I’m not sure we can do enough in any case. Mass migrations will cause mass conflicts. No country is immune.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(124,055 posts)Climate change is the biggest underlying threat, but Trump is standing in the way of trying to do anything about it. He either causes or encourages the things that make our lives worse.
Wounded Bear
(61,685 posts)and is the bulwark of defense against correcting them.
GoCubsGo
(33,695 posts)Especially willful ignorance.
Mendocino
(8,014 posts)
lpbk2713
(43,204 posts)The other problems are magnified from his ineptitude.
A real president would try to make a positive effort.
Demovictory9
(35,161 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is actively making every single one of those things worse, along with the rest of his enabling republican cowards.
GemDigger
(4,352 posts)Polybius
(19,645 posts)Trump is guaranteed to be gone after 2020 or 2024. Climate change will not.
lame54
(37,768 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,680 posts)Many economists are suggesting a combination of factors currently have us sitting on the verge of a deep recession. The collapse of the U.S. dollar would lead to unimaginable suffering here.
The other thing that comes to mind is a rogue, significant nuclear event which could come from several sources and likely would trigger a severe global economic downturn and possibly a world war.
The greatest non-imminent threats are climate change and the massive global economic inequality that currently OWNS the GOP and other right-wing political groups around the world. Both of those appear to be non-reversible trends.
Other than that, running out of coffee would top my list........