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Ok, now what? What's our next big issue going to be?

Ok, now what? What's our next big issue going to be?

  • Police brutality

    Votes: 2 18.2%

  • Poverty

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Immigration

    Votes: 1 9.1%

  • Whitewashing the Confederacy from our history

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Taxes

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Campaign finance reform

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Sex / gender equality

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Racial equality

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Gun control

    Votes: 2 18.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 6 54.5%
  • Total voters
    11
  • Poll closed .
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Ok, now what? What's our next big issue going to be?

SSM is pretty much done and settled. Other than some kvetching by some for a few months, the din will die down and fade away.

So, now what? We can't go about our lives. We have to have some wrong to right. In your estimation, what will the next big issue be?
 
I disagree with the idea that gay rights is "over" now. There is still the issue of discrimination in the areas of employment and housing, gays do not have equal adoption rights, and are banned from donating blood.
 
I voted "police brutality" but the reasoning was more broad. It is more about police militarization, the "War on Drugs," our insane and disproportionate incarceration rates, and broken justice system will become the next big issue for us to contend with. They are all related, so just going after police brutality will be like treating a scratch at the ER but forgetting all about the gun shot wound that got him there in the first place. It is all systemic of a larger problem, a broken justice system from so many efforts.
 
SocialDemocrat said:
I disagree with the idea that gay rights is "over" now. There is still the issue of discrimination in the areas of employment and housing, gays do not have equal adoption rights, and are banned from donating blood.
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I didn't say gay rights. I said SSM. Related, but different.
 
OrphanSlug said:
I voted "police brutality" but the reasoning was more broad. It is more about police militarization, the "War on Drugs," our insane and disproportionate incarceration rates, and broken justice system will become the next big issue for us to contend with. They are all related, so just going after police brutality will be like treating a scratch at the ER but forgetting all about the gun shot wound that got him there in the first place. It is all systemic of a larger problem, a broken justice system from so many efforts.
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I hope you're right, and for all the nuances you state.
 
radcen said:
I didn't say gay rights. I said SSM. Related, but different.
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My point is that gay rights will probably continue to be at the forefront of many people's minds until many issues regarding it are solved. Transsexuals also have even less legal rights than gays at this point, so that will certainly be huge in the future as well.
 
radcen said:
Ok, now what? What's our next big issue going to be?

SSM is pretty much done and settled. Other than some kvetching by some for a few months, the din will die down and fade away.

So, now what? We can't go about our lives. We have to have some wrong to right. In your estimation,
what will the next big issue be?
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We have lots of big issues to tackle and we're going to have to multi-task and work on all of them.
 
"We have to have some wrong to right."

That is the Liberal mantra, isn't it? Certainly nobody votes for Liberalism over freedom. The Democrats require an endless line of shrieking victims and they either create them or import them. Otherwise, the libs are out of business.
 
Ray410 said:
"We have to have some wrong to right."

That is the Liberal mantra, isn't it? Certainly nobody votes for Liberalism over freedom. The Democrats require an endless line of shrieking victims and they either create them or import them. Otherwise, the libs are out of business.
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No. It's human nature. Liberal or conservative doesn't matter, we always have something that we think somebody else is doing wrong and that we need to "fix".
 
radcen said:
Ok, now what? What's our next big issue going to be?

SSM is pretty much done and settled. Other than some kvetching by some for a few months, the din will die down and fade away.

So, now what? We can't go about our lives. We have to have some wrong to right. In your estimation, what will the next big issue be?
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Naw. The end of history is here.
 
SocialDemocrat said:
I disagree with the idea that gay rights is "over" now. There is still the issue of discrimination in the areas of employment and housing, gays do not have equal adoption rights, and are banned from donating blood.
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I support all of those with the exception of donating blood. I think blood donations should be strictly based on a scientific assessment of risk factors.
 
Ray410 said:
"We have to have some wrong to right."

That is the Liberal mantra, isn't it? Certainly nobody votes for Liberalism over freedom. The Democrats require an endless line of shrieking victims and they either create them or import them. Otherwise, the libs are out of business.
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Perhaps your really feel this way, or perhaps are attempting to politicize the thread, but do you think only the Libs got a lock on "righting a wrong"

Open up a thread the next time a gun regulation, abortion expansion, or LGBT rights/marriage/discrimination issue come up, and see if only Libs respond!

I also doubt it was Libs that made the anti-gay Indiana pizzeria owners millionaires, via GoFundMe ...
 
As long as homosexuals continue to be persecuted, jailed, terrorized, and killed all around the world - then issues regarding homosexuality will not be a finished issue. This forum isn't just about Americans.

However it is possible to discuss and focus on more than one pressing issue. So I'd say all of them.
 
OrphanSlug said:
I voted "police brutality" but the reasoning was more broad. It is more about police militarization, the "War on Drugs," our insane and disproportionate incarceration rates, and broken justice system will become the next big issue for us to contend with. They are all related, so just going after police brutality will be like treating a scratch at the ER but forgetting all about the gun shot wound that got him there in the first place. It is all systemic of a larger problem, a broken justice system from so many efforts.
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Bingo.

To see that spoken/debated about at length at the highest level would be great.
 
I would vote marijuana legalization as the next big issue, simply because it is currently following a similar track as same sex marriage. Numerous states have started to legalize marijuana to different degrees and the majority of the US public now supports marijuana legalization and the alteration in public opinion has followed a similarly rapid alteration as that experienced for same sex marriage.
 
Chomsky said:
I also doubt it was Libs that made the anti-gay Indiana pizzeria owners millionaires, via GoFundMe ...
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*psst* You do realize that they weren't anti-gay, they were anti-ssm. They had no problem serving gays in any other capacity. And yes, there is a difference between the two.
 
There are lots of big issues for America, but by far the most controversial and "biggest" issue going forward will be climate change and what the socialists and wealth redistributers at the UN are pushing and those on the left who are pushing for the carbon tax/carbon credits corruption that is deemed the savior. It holds the strength and prosperity of western first world nations in the balance.
 
As to the next issue - the election year is coming; if the GOP don't fabricate an issue, the Dems surely will!

I'm thinking that after it's decimating off-year election performance ('14), the 'War on Women' may have run it's course for the Dems. But 'Benghazi' seems to be a perennial favorite for the GOP, so I think we'll see a lot of that!

Not what the OP was looking for, but with all the advertising & organizing dollars the parties have, they'll probably push-off any issue the citizens have. As we know, "money is speech", and the people as individuals generally don't have as much of it, so the Parties will do most of the talking next year (as usual, but more-so).
 
CanadaJohn said:
There are lots of big issues for America, but by far the most controversial and "biggest" issue going forward will be climate change and what the socialists and wealth redistributers at the UN are pushing and those on the left who are pushing for the carbon tax/carbon credits corruption that is deemed the savior. It holds the strength and prosperity of western first world nations in the balance.
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I think this is issue #1 for the left, but politically, I think the big issue will be immigration. There is an election coming after all and the left wants to corral Hispanics into their corner. Liberals are like the trench-coated perv trying to lure children into his car for a one way ride. So they will offer goodies to immigrants and stand for open borders. Once inside, the liberal perv will treat them like they treat the black population who slavishly support them--offer them trinkets and tell them how the world outside the car is filled with racists and meanies.
 
Kal'Stang said:
*psst* You do realize that they weren't anti-gay, they were anti-ssm. They had no problem serving gays in any other capacity. And yes, there is a difference between the two.
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Fair enough.

I might try to argue that their ant-ssm does not preclude them being anti-gay.

Or, they may argue their not making the cake is not due to their even being anti-ssm, but merely adherence to a religious doctrine.

But regardless of the technicalities of their specific discrimination, it would appear they might be conservative, which was the point of my post.
 
Chomsky said:
As to the next issue - the election year is coming; if the GOP don't fabricate an issue, the Dems surely will!

I'm thinking that after it's decimating off-year election performance ('14), the 'War on Women' may have run it's course for the Dems. But 'Benghazi' seems to be a perennial favorite for the GOP, so I think we'll see a lot of that!

Not what the OP was looking for, but with all the advertising & organizing dollars the parties have, they'll probably push-off any issue the citizens have. As we know, "money is speech", and the people as individuals generally don't have as much of it, so the Parties will do most of the talking next year (as usual, but more-so).
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As far as your point, I don't disagree they'll both try to keep the truly controversial (read: important) issues under the radar.
 
Fletch said:
I think this is issue #1 for the left, but politically, I think the big issue will be immigration. There is an election coming after all and the left wants to corral Hispanics into their corner. Liberals are like the trench-coated perv trying to lure children into his car for a one way ride. So they will offer goodies to immigrants and stand for open borders. Once inside, the liberal perv will treat them like they treat the black population who slavishly support them--offer them trinkets and tell them how the world outside the car is filled with racists and meanies.
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You could be right, but I think a lot of candidates on the right have both the personal resume that appeals to Latinos but also the policy resume on the immigration issue that appeals to Latinos. It's another reason I support and hope Jeb Bush will be the next President. There has to come a time when Republicans finally decide that solving the issue is in their best interests because Democrats have zero interest in solving it because they benefit from the division. Most voting Latinos actually support the social and economic agenda of Republicans but they are constantly being marginalized by the fringe on the right that bad mouths them. Guys like Donald Trump who impugn with talk of rapists and murderers as the typical illegal do the Republicans no favours.

I keep waiting for Republicans to smarten up - they finally did it last time around with their choices for the Senate and they won big. Hopefully they do it again in the Presidential primaries and don't shoot themselves in the foot this time.
 
Gun control.

I'll keep focusing on my causes (none of which are on that list) and vote for the person who bests represents me economically in 2016.
 
tres borrachos said:
Gun control.

I'll keep focusing on my causes (none of which are on that list) and vote for the person who bests represents me economically in 2016.
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Just curious, but what are your causes?

Mine aren't on the list, either. My two are civil asset forfeiture and wrongful convictions, but when I made the list I didn't kid myself into believing they would be as big for everybody else as they are to me.
 
radcen said:
Just curious, but what are your causes?

Mine aren't on the list, either. My two are civil asset forfeiture and wrongful convictions, but when I made the list I didn't kid myself into believing they would be as big for everybody else as they are to me.
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Animal rights - no not giving legal rights to animals, just banning their use in circuses and other places. Animal rescue - more funding, spaying/neutering, etc. Diabetes. Elderly abuse.
 
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