Put these 20 things in order of importance

[Flying Squirrel]

to you...

Climate/Environmental
Corporatism
Drones
Economy / Budget
Elections / Voting
Gun Control
Healthcare
LGBT issues
Mainstream Media
NSA / Surveillance
Police
Poverty, Homelessness
Racial issues
Schools / Education
Social Security
Terrorism
War/Military Spending
Whistleblower Protection
Womens issues
Workers' issues

I'm working on a project and I could use a bit of help.

Also let me know if you think something should be on the list that I haven't included (obviously I can't track everything, but...)

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. To me....(not easy to do, imprecise - how I feel at this moment)

Climate/Environmental
Corporatism
Elections / Voting
Social Security
Poverty, Homelessness
Schools / Education
Whistleblower Protection
NSA / Surveillance
Economy / Budget
Mainstream Media
Gun Control
Healthcare
War/Military Spending
Racial issues
Womens issues
Workers' issues
LGBT issues
Drones
Police
Terrorism

[JayhawkSD]

3. I like your priorities

I especially like where you put "Terrorism."

I would have put "War/Military Spending" a bit higher, perhaps up there with "Economy / Budget" because of the impact that the former has on the latter. I might have had "Workers' Issues" a little higher.

But that's sort of quibbling; you and I come from the same school.

[taught_me_patience]

2. #1 by a thousand miles... corporate influence in politics

everything else is a distant second.

1) corporatism
2) military/war
3) economy
4) healthcare
5) environment

I care very little about the rest, honestly.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. ...

Climate/environment/energy policy
corporatism
Economy/Budget/Trade issues
Elections/Voting
Racial Issues (this is tied to the above)
Police/Justice system (this is also tied to the above)
Poverty/Homelessness (also a subset of racial issues to an extent as structural inequalities make race too often a proxy for class in the USA)
Healthcare
LGBT issues (especially the T in LGBT as transgender people are a small but substantial minority who often face more discrimination than gays and lesbians)
Military spending (which ties back in to economy and budget, in fact, as defense contractors are major employers in many areas)
Workers' issues (which again ties back into trade issues)
Womens' issues (which are tied into healthcare issues, to some extent, as well as poverty, which affects more women than men, and racial issues as women of colour are disproportionately affected by lack of access to reproductive health care and poverty)
NSA/Surveillance
Mainstream media (especially media consolidation and effective monopolies, this ties back into corporatism)
Schools/education (which again is related to economy, and to racial issues, and to workers' issues)
Social Security
Firearms safety regulations (better phrasing than "gun control&quot
Terrorism
Drones

There's a lot of overlap between several of these, actually, I'd say.

[blkmusclmachine]

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[Populist_Prole]

6. Corporatism

I don't want to say "I don't care about anything else"; it's just that, in my opinion, it's the root of the problem and everything else will eventually correct once we're free of the corporate yoke.

Expenditure of efforts in the other 19 points seems to me a distraction that blunts the tip of our spear.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. Four categories, each sorted alphabetically.

Economy / Budget
Schools / Education

Healthcare
Poverty, Homelessness
Social Security
War/Military Spending

Climate/Environmental
Elections / Voting
LGBT issues
Police
Racial issues
Whistleblower Protection
Womens issues**
Workers' issues

Corporatism
Drones
Gun Control *
Mainstream Media
NSA / Surveillance
Terrorism

"Crime (& punishment/prisons)", "Foreign policy", "International Aid" are conspicuous by their absence.



*Would be higher if there was more prospect of progress
**Assuming that this means discrimination; abortion rights rank higher, but I think probably class as "healthcare".

[wickerwoman]

8. OK

Elections / Voting
Mainstream Media
Corporatism (several issues here including 1. monopolisation; 2. privatisation of traditionally public goods such as prisons, schools, the military, etc. 3. undermining of labour rights through outsourcing)
Climate/Environmental
<<Energy Policy - particularly nuclear proliferation without any real plan for dealing with radioactive waste or risk>>
<<Deteriorating Infrastructure>> Possibly as part of larger issue of lack of trust in government or poor understanding of civics
Poverty, Homelessness
Workers' issues
Economy / Budget
Schools / Education
Healthcare
<<Right to Choose>>
<<Improving International Relations; Foreign Aid>>
War/Military Spending
Womens issues / Racial issues / LGBT issues (equality really)
<<Maintaining separation of church and state>>
NSA / Surveillance (right to privacy)
Whistleblower Protection
Police <<Ending the War on Drugs>>
Drones
Terrorism
Gun Control
<<Abolition of Death Penalty>>
Social Security (in the sense that I don't think there is anything wrong with it; much higher obviously if the question is "protecting social security&quot
Pit Bulls
Honey Boo Boo

[Still Sensible]

9. I'll take a shot at it

This is what it looks like for me right now... they are all important, so the order for me could look quite different if I did it again next week.

Economy / Budget
Healthcare
War/Military Spending
Poverty, Homelessness
Schools / Education
Poverty, Homelessness
Climate/Environmental
Corporatism
Womens issues
Workers' issues
LGBT issues
Racial issues
Social Security
Schools / Education
Terrorism
Elections / Voting
Whistleblower Protection
NSA / Surveillance
Gun Control
Mainstream Media
Drones
Police

[wandy]

10. I see it as a shorter list......

1) Corporatism : In a corporate state the only thing that matters is profit. Making a buck by destroying the environment is OK. Wars for profit improve the bottom line. One dollar = One Vote and the will of the people can be controlled. The will of the people can be be dammed. Education need only be enough for people to serve their function and the more uninformed the easier they are to manipulate.

2) Schools / Education : Not simple to advance science and engineering. A well constructed education system forms the bases for rational thought. Curiosity that allows reconciling a Creator with Evolution. Reasoning that allows informed choices from diet or government or in the direction of one's existence.

3) Mainstream Media : Let's face it. What we have right now are generators of various propaganda. Benghazi forms an excellent example. Some talking heads would have you believe it was the greatest transgression any government has commented. Other "trusted sources" have reached the point of "shut up and go away I'm tired of hearing about it". Have you ever heard of an honest discussion of what went wrong and how to FIX it. It is true that people who rely on Fox for news are less informed than those who pay no particular attention to news at all.

4) Elections / Voting : This becomes either the most or least important area. A reasonably educated, truthfully informed populace can make intelligent decisions on all of the other items on the list. Unfortunately we appear to be heading in the opposite directions. A dumbed down people will succumb to any lies media, any media, the corporate masters hand them. Voting becomes a matter of choosing between two lies. All other items become simply accepting which of the few choices the Corporate State presents.

[lovemydog]

11. Good luck with project, here's my list:

Healthcare
Climate/Environmental
Corporatism
Poverty, Homelessness
Social Security
Economy / Budget
Elections / Voting
Workers' issues
Schools / Education
War/Military Spending
Racial issues
Womens issues
LGBT issues
Mainstream Media
Gun Control
NSA / Surveillance
Terrorism
Whistleblower Protection
Drones
Police

[seveneyes]

12. Economy and Education

Nothing else matters if you don't guard these. Without it, millions of ignorant people will be killing each other for survival and revenge.

[Flying Squirrel]

13. ...

[Initech]

14. My list:

1. Equal rights for everyone (LGBT, women's issues, etc)

2. Reducing military spending and ending our presence in countries that are not at war.

3. Ending NSA snooping and restoring the 4th amendment

4. Everything else.