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Trump | |
9 (69%) |
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Inequality | |
0 (0%) |
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Climate Change | |
4 (31%) |
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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
(34,544 posts)Blues Heron
(6,258 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(100,400 posts)JHB
(37,499 posts)One word that puts so many other words on that list.
WhiteTara
(30,262 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Even if democracy in the us doesnt. Climate change is the existential threat. We cant do enough about with republicans in power but Im not sure we can do enough in any case. Mass migrations will cause mass conflicts. No country is immune.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(121,860 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
(60,977 posts)and is the bulwark of defense against correcting them.
GoCubsGo
(33,258 posts)Especially willful ignorance.
Mendocino
(7,845 posts)lpbk2713
(43,201 posts)The other problems are magnified from his ineptitude.
A real president would try to make a positive effort.
Demovictory9
(34,110 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
(4,343 posts)Polybius
(18,685 posts)Trump is guaranteed to be gone after 2020 or 2024. Climate change will not.
lame54
(37,272 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,628 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........