What is the most important issue in America today?

[kentuck]

24 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Jobs?
	0 (0%)
	Justice?
	0 (0%)
	Climate Change?
	3 (13%)
	National Defense?
	0 (0%)
	Racial Equality?
	1 (4%)
	Voting Rights?
	16 (67%)
	Preserving Capitalism?
	0 (0%)
	Preserving Democracy
	3 (13%)
	Other?
	1 (4%)
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[FoxNewsSucks]

1. There's really no question about it.

If we can't vote, have our votes count, and be assured the result will stand, we'll never be able to do anything about any other issue again.

And time is quickly running out.

[CrispyQ]

4. +1

Your Vote = Your Voice. They know that & they want to silence us.

[Takket]

5. exactly. you can't ever win the game if you are locked out of the stadium

[FoxNewsSucks]

15. Good analogy.

Seems like more people need to realize that

[uponit7771]

32. +1

[TreasonousBastard]

2. No one issue is overriding. All must be dealt with.

[The Magistrate]

3. Quashing Treason, Sir

Voting rights is an essential element to doing this, but the end ought not be lost sight of.

A traitorous cabal has far too strong a presence in government and society, and will destroy the country if allowed any further run.

[Hortensis]

7. I was thinking overcoming the crazy elements as most,

with treason, voting part of that. But yes.

[empedocles]

8. Yes

[keithbvadu2]

6. Voting

[LakeArenal]

9. Preserving Democracy includes voting rights.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Yep, and technically,

it should also include Racial Equality and Justice. It hasn't always, but in an ideal world, they all fall under the same umbrella.

[LakeArenal]

12. What happened to the Cubbies?

Trying to be the Brewers?

[FoxNewsSucks]

14. True, but it was a separate choice

and voting is the first step in that preservation, in order to be able to take the next steps.

[Binkie The Clown]

11. Other: The climate emergency.

Once the climate goes to shit, human civilization is doomed and nothing else will matter except for raw survival as small bands of humans move north to avoid heat death, thirst, and starvation.

Climate supports life. Nothing else really makes much difference until that issue is addressed (if it's even possible to address it at this late date.)

[11 Bravo]

22. But if the Repugs are allowed to continue to corrupt the voting process ...

nothing will ever be done to address the growing climate crisis.

[Binkie The Clown]

23. That would be true IF it were only U.S. politics that influenced the climate.

In truth, there's not a single government anywhere in the world that is taking this crisis seriously enough.

[11 Bravo]

25. The poll specified "the most important issue in America".

I responded according to that framing.

(And I agree that NO government is currently treating the climate crisis with the urgency it demands.)

[Binkie The Clown]

26. Every GLOBAL issue that impacts America is important in America.

If a giant asteroid were on a path directly toward Mexico that would be an important issue in America because it would have a huge effect on America.

[brooklynite]

13. How is "preserving capitalism" an issue?

[markie]

16. no one answer but...

even though voting rights seems high on the list... if the voting population doesn't have critical thinking skills and awareness of the truth... the vote is still a problem

[Bettie]

17. None of the other stuff gets done in

a way that works for people who aren't excessively wealthy if there are no voting rights.

They are being chipped away.

And the funny thing is, as a white woman in a small, red town, I don't really have to worry about losing my right to vote, but that's not the point at all. EVERYONE who legally can should be able to vote, easily and without barriers.

[kentuck]

18. What difference would it make if you could vote...?

...but it wasn't counted? If you don't have a democracy, voting doesn't mean very much.

[Bettie]

19. That's true too

I think my mind refuses to accept the idea of them being able to change election results on a whim.

ETA: Preserving Democracy and Voting Rights are tied closely together. Each hinges on the other.

[kentuck]

20. Yes, they are interdependent.

One cannot exist without the other.

[Ohio Joe]

21. Other - Education

While many issues are more urgent, I believe that many of them are rooted in ignorance... Often willful ignorance. But in the end I think we get the most from having a well educated populace.

[meadowlander]

24. +1

You can't save something that people don't value. And the only way for people to value democracy, voting rights, the rule of law, etc. is if they are taught to understand why we have them in the first place.

[Demovictory9]

27. "justice" includes voting rights, scotus, policing issues, BLM, womens rights... so many under that

umbrella

[Trueblue1968]

28. Preserving Democracy

[KY_EnviroGuy]

29. IMO, it's massive global economic and social inequality.

If it were not for massive investments in extreme right-wing policy through election contributions, control of public and social media, and funding of right-wing think tanks by corporations and the ultra-wealthy, America's GOP would be just in the margins of history. We would be living in a far more equal and just world.

They fuel the divisiveness of racism and poverty, the distrust of higher education and science, the distrust of government and the soundness of elections and the corruption of our public and social media.

And, they do it with our dollars that truckle up to them via our everyday purchases of goods and services. I feel that knife in my back each day as I read the latest news from around the world.

We've been building this one-way road to hell for many decades as consumerism, selfishness, divisiveness and a sense of individual independence has come to prevail in the public spirit, both in the USA and most other industrialized nations. It's difficult to envision a way to reverse the flood.

Just the opinion of an old, tired and retired country boy.......

[Raine]

30. Climate ... first, last and always

as far as I'm concerned.

[DemocraticPatriot]

31. Voting rights, which of course also means

"preserving democracy".

Preserving democracy is the end, voting rights is the means-- so I voted for voting rights.