Reply #14: Many issues are important to me, but ...

[rhite5]

if I had to pick one issue it would be EDUCATION.

You can't have a democracy without a reasonably well educated electorate.

That includes all the conditions that make education effective and successful, like respect for the profession, freedom to teach in ways that work for the teacher, adequate funding, no compulsary textbooks, no compulsary uniform testing.

I also include the ongoing lifetime education one gleans from the MEDIA. The media must be diversified with a good dose of foreign sources, free of the constraints of consolidated corporate ownership. All of the conditions that make that kind of media possible are a part of my answer too.