In your opinion, what is the most important issue right now?

[LeftCoast]

If you could only work on one issue what would it be? Abortion? Election fraud? Global warming? Civil rights? I know it's hard to pick since we're facing attack on all fronts, but what do you think the single most important issue facing us is right now?

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Election fraud

[Maat]

5. Preserving reproductive rights.

2. human rights (domestic partnership benefits),
3. peace vigils (end the Iraq war),
4. election reform.

Oh, this is not working. They are all important.

Maybe getting progressives to join and stick with their groups, such as Democracy for America, Progressive Democrats of America, and democraticunderground.com, so that we can work together on all of them.

[LeftCoast]

9. They are important

Even narrowing it down to four is a pretty good accomplishment. I still can't make up my mind.

[goclark]

8. FRAUD

and the corruption of the Bush Thugs

[Patsy Stone]

2. Counting the Votes

Making sure that everyone's vote is counted and that everyone who should have been able to vote was allowed to vote.

[GainesT1958]

Maintaining a resolute desire for true democracy...

Strong enough to last through the next four years!x(

:kick:

B-)

[proud patriot]

3. Election Fraud

without fair elections All else is lost .

[LeftCoast]

12. I think you may be right

Without free elections, all other bets are off. The only reason this one isn't automatically my top issue is because of the uncertainty that surrounds it. It's frustrating. If there was rock hard proof of fraud it'd be a rallying cry and I think real change would happen. Instead, it's iffy, and 'not enough to change the outcome of the election,' and 'alleged,' etc.

And I shouldn't even begin to bring up the whole BH thing.

[BanzaiBonnie]

47. Another way of framing vote fraud

Good one LeftCoast!


Without fair elections, all bets are off.


This is part of the framing of the issue. This affects everyone. It is totally nonpartisan.

WRITE IT
SAY IT
SHOUT IT
DISPLAY IT

Do something every day to get it out there!

[yurbud]

4. Tie: MEDIA and FAIR VOTING

It's hard to tell which is more important, but if we can break through on either, we can fix the other.

But BOTH have to be fixed before we can get much else of substance done.

[LeftCoast]

14. Maybe two sides of the same coin?

Can you have free and fair elections without a free and fair press?

[proud patriot]

24. Indeed

:thumbsup:

[brainshrub]

6. Election Fraud.

Biggest issue far and away.

[Ready4Change]

7. Energy Policy, Oil Consumption

I think it's the most pressing issue facing our society.

[autorank]

10. Theft of the election!!! Predicate issue.

[kuozzman]

11. Christmas commercials with my dog

Redefine the term "strong dollar"
Abolish background checks of my staff
Toughen up the military with less armor
Elect a guy with mob ties to Director of Homeland Security
Vow a "strong dollar" policy via cutting budget deficits the
day after a record deficit is reported
Ignore (test) bombs going undetected at airports
Privatize Social Security....

[Sugarbleus]

13. Civil Rights..........

I care about everything that's wrong but you asked for just one passion in your list.

I figure there are millions of us, so that allows each us to work on and watch different issues concurrently.

MANY are working on the voting issues, I'm working on Civil/domestic rights. SSI, affordable housing, jobs, wages, abortion rights, healthcare etc... I continue to watch the congress while keeping my ear attuned to the OTHER heinous acts/laws proposed for the people by our fascist government.

[LeftCoast]

16. I'm not judging. I admire you for your efforts!

I just like asking the hard questions. :)

[Sugarbleus]

27. Not a problem....

Sorry if my post sounded rash? I've become a wee bit more radicalized lately. ;-)

Just answering the ole questions.. it's all good.

Peace~~ :hug:

[nevergiveup]

15. the war .... the war .... the war

The possible ramifications of this insane war are more terrifying than the terrorists themselves. Hmmmmm! I am not sure this makes sense. I need sleep.

[LeftCoast]

21. Welcome to DU!

You are making sense...at least to my sleep deprived brain.

The whole war makes me ill. The whole "Freedom isn't cheap" orwell-speak makes me want to scream. So I come here to DU to vent and feel better knowing at least some people out there DO see what's going on.

[Griffy]

17. anyone that isnt focused on FRAUD is missing the big picture nt

no voting system, no democracy, no choice, no peace, no nothing!

[Radical Activist]

18. WTO/NAFTA/World Bank/IMF

In the next 10-20 years we will have to decide if we're going to tolerate a world corporate government that can overrule US laws and works only for the benefit of multinationals. They are lowering the standard of living in all nations which will contribute to continued global unrest and poverty. It is global fascism and it is the greatest threat to democracy today, I believe.

[Old and In the Way]

19. Fixing the vote process is the only issue.

We win in the marketplace of ideas.

[Forkboy]

20. For the US election fraud...for the world global warming

[Lexingtonian]

22. the Muddle East

We have to have a more comprehensive and plausible plan for when Iraq falls apart on the Bushies- a set of interrelated and committed positions on I/P, the Syrians and Iranians, the Saudis, Afghanistan, Pakistan. Positions all about helping them integrate in the Modern world over the course of the next 20-40 years at their own pace and settle their problems accordingly.

The domestic stuff all needs more and better and systematic work. For example, settling structural problems that permit election fraud and such requires a great deal more than a couple of lawsuits. There has to be some careful thinking about what constitutes acceptable human error and how to correct for it, and the vulnerabilities far beyond buggy software and dead batteries and ballot boxes that people forget to mark on checkoff sheets.

[OneBlueSky]

23. 1) election fraud, and 2) ending corporate governance . . . n/t

.

[laheina]

25. Civil Rights/Civil Liberties

One should not have to worry about free speech, or being female, or being Muslim, or being gay, or whatever, each time a new administration comes into the white house.

[Silverhair]

26. Short term: Killer Flu, then Peak Oil. Long term: Overpopulation

If the Asian Bird Flu manages to recombine so that it can be as contagious as regular flu, yet still as lethal, it could kill 1/4 of humanity in a few months. That should put it very high on anybodies priority list. In 1918 the flu killed 675,000 Americans in a few months.

After that I would have to say Peak Oil. However, Thermal Depolymerization may be the answer to it and to some other problems at the same time. I would want to investigate it to see if it really worked, and if it did, then I would want to have a massive Federal project to build TDP plants by the thousands and teach other countries how to do it. I would also make the inventor and developer of TDP ultra wealthy for making a discovery of such great value to humanity.

I don't have any solution for overpopulation. I suppose the killer flu might be nature's solution, but I would rather see the population come down gradually.

[DianeG5385]

28. Preserving social security

It may not be much but it is the most successful social program in American history. Pukes hate helping people and want to destroy it and make a buck in the meantime. Simple as that.

[IndianaGreen]

29. Ending the war now!

People are dying for nothing in Iraq! The most important issue is to resist militarism and this horrible war. We must insist for an immediate and unconditional US withdrawal from Iraq.

[Gold Metal Flake]

30. Organization!

Opposition!
We can't do a goddamn thing until we unite as LIBERALS!

[SemperEadem]

31. Jobs and stopping the outsourcing of jobs with benefits

second I would say is election fraud, then environment, individual constitutionally guaranteed rights, reproductive rights

[kodi]

32. nuclear proliferation is a clear and present danger to the entire world

if we thought it all changed after 911, just wait until a nuke goes off somewhere and wipes out a million people and posions the air for 5,000,000 square miles.

[proudbluestater]

33. Diminishing Civil Liberties, rise of the Police State

[leftofthedial]

34. lack of paper ballots

lack of transparency and accountability of elections

[Krocksice]

35. Media regulation on TV

I think all of the others are huge problems, but I think we somehow have to regulate the TV media or we will never be able to show how important the real issues are.

[LynnTheDem]

36. war of aggression; Iraq.

Dead men, women, and children.

[suegeo]

37. Returning to the rule of law

1. Returning to the rule of law

2. Protecting the most weak in our society, because I believe we are Fascist now, and it's the weak they go after first

3. Ending corporate personhood

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[hvn_nbr_2]

39. Without credible elections, all else is spitting into the wind n/t

[jonnyblitz]

40. Iraq. n/t

[Tippy]

41. Ending this insane War in Iraq ...and bringing our Troops home...

We had no business going in and we have no business staying....

[robbedvoter]

42. Fair elections - everything else stems from there. A working democracy

would not stand for that kind of incompetence, lies, crimes. Fairness doctrine would be the second.

[prairie populist]

43. Preventing BushCo from raping the Constitution

[morgan2]

44. corporate power

99% of our problems stem from this.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

45. Election fraud....

because if that isn't addressed and fixed, how we stand on any of our other issues will not matter one bit.

[crasmane]

46. The dichotomies dividing the nation.

War and empire versus a peaceful republic.
Enlightened self interest must trump greed in policy.
Money for the people and a solvent government. When you've got limited resources, you spend them well on infrastructure.
A re-democratization of this nation as a whole.
Debate about education versus social control.
A reconstruction of public education toward the secular, constitutional nature of our culture.
An end to the Pledge of Allegiance and all worship of flags, symbols, etc.

[DoBotherMe]

48. Exposing the Iraq war fraud

laying bare the true reason we are there, because Saddam wouldn't play nice with the oil creeps.

[eauclaireliberal]

49. RE: "In your opinion, what is the most important issue right now?"

The U.S. economy.

[TrustingDog]

50. comes down to one thing - class warfare...

all the ugly tentacles lead to this one issue.