What are your liberal priorities?

[leftofthedial]

Which of the following issues is THE most important to you?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. None Of The Above.

Making sure the lower class and middle class can put food on their table and roofs over their heads is by far the number one priority to me.

[leftofthedial]

2. class warfare, then?

which is really several items on the list, but mostly the first.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. No, It Really Isn't.

It is far too valid of an issue to not stand on its own. It isn't a vague part of those other issues, it is an issue in and of itself. Unfortunately, it wasn't on the list and there was no 'other' option.

[Selatius]

7. Yes, I agree; human survival comes first

If you can't put food on the table, you're in trouble. You're in a dark world when your employer doesn't even pay you enough to buy food.

[leftofthedial]

8. how is it not related to workers and labor issues?

to me, they are parts of the same problem

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

10. I Completely Disagree. Labor, If Anything, Is Part Of The One I Listed.

But like I said, the option I chose is more than strong enough to stand on its own and be its own choice. It isn't some ancillary afterthought attached to one of the other options. If you feel that it is, so be it. But I strongly consider it to be an issue all by itself, and one that I think was a grave oversight to have not been in the poll.

[Desertrose]

17. Have to agree this is an important issue....

its all about the oligarchy....class warfare...

and yeah, there should be an "ALL of the ABOVE" option.

DR

[leftofthedial]

18. personally, I think class warfare is the umbrella issue above all the

others listed

[leftofthedial]

24. check this one out

DU rich get richer thread

[Beacho]

3. You forgot "All Of The Above"(and then some)

I can multitask, doncha know?

[JeffR]

4. You need an all-of-the above choice

Which I'd vote for, and there other issues I'd elevate to the same importance: social justice, eliminating all traces of institutionalized bigotry against people of color, serious and sensible gun control, the immediate decriminaliztion of marijuana, universal health-care, a complete rollback of all tax cuts implemented by the Bush junta and a carefully crafted package of new tax cuts and tax credits aimed squarely at the working poor and the middle class...

Well, you get the idea.

[Unvanguard]

6. Ending the imperialist aggression against Iraq is the most important.

Protecting the country from falling under repressive autocracy is a close second.

My top priority is usually class issues, but the imminent dangers and catastrophes must be dealt with first.

[Change has come]

13. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[Quantess]

16. I'd call it oligarchy (ruling from the super-wealthy)

Welcome to DU!:toast:

[Ron Green]

9. Without environmental protection and sustainability, all the others

are moot.

[Quantess]

19. self edit

:D

[Change has come]

11. Ending the war.

After that, all of the above. :patriot:

[Wwagsthedog]

12. Add Universal Health Care

Or at least some improvement in the current state of affairs.

[The Anti-Neo Con]

14. Labor/worker's rights/class warfare

That's my big issue. I'd like to be able to join the middle class someday, and so would a lot of other people I know.

[mvd]

15. I think we need to roll back those tax cuts for the rich right away

That can quickly be done. Then, get out of Iraq, patch up security here at home, and improve our international relations - and provide universal health care. Then, solve problems like the Patriot Act and the deregulations concerning the environment.

[Nicole]

20. Secular Civil Liberties

All of the above if that had been an option.

[Spider Jerusalem]

21. Civil liberties.

In a free society, civil liberties (speech, press, assembly, redress of grievances, etc) are the source of everything else (including religious freedom, reproductive freedom, the right of workers to unionise, strike, and engage in collective bargaining, and so on).

Environmental protection is important, but it isn't so much a "liberal priority" as it is (or should be) a human priority; continued disregard of the negative impact our wasteful and polluting use of petroleum and coal has on global climate, and of the far-reaching effects of deforestation, is going to lead to a world that's largely uninhabitable for future generations .

[Raine]

22. Environment

first, last and always...if we don't have a clean environment nothing else is going to matter because life on the planet can't be sustained.

[leftofthedial]

23. especially in the face of our current ecological threat

global warming, climate change, melting ice, rising sea levels

[TahitiNut]

25. The first two, in effect, are the same.

What we're seeing is "Liberties for those who can afford to buy them." Mary Cheney has no concerns about gay marriage. She can buy all the legal support she wants. She sure isn't concerned with "choice" - no affluent right-wing woman is, since they can always 'vacation' where an abortion is legal if they're not able to pay some local doctor enough to perfrom a relatively simple procedure.

Remember ... it's not about the civil liberties of the "top 1%" - they have them no matter what.

[spacemanspiff]

26. Iraq encompasses all other issues

Do you realize how much environmental degradation has occured because of this war? Depleted Uranium has already been found in the air in England.

All of the money and energy in this country is being spent in Iraq, therefore leaving nothing for other issues important to people in this country.

Halliburton is currently looting the treasury, billions have gone missing- imagine if we could put that money toward universal health care instead.

Like the late great Bill Hicks said....'couldn't we instead use our technology to shoot bananas at people?'

[DireStrike]

27. Environment is an EMERGENCY issue...

We need to do something about it ASAP.

Second, or coincidentally with that, we need to work on changing the state of public discourse and wresting people's eyeballs away from the liars on the teevee.

Meanwhile we should be rejecting electronic voting methods everywhere.