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What area of policy is the most important to you?

What area of policy is the most important to you?


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I'd like to ask each of you which policies you are focused on. Criminal justice system refers to things like how long should sentences last and whether prisons should focus on punishment or rehabilitation. National security vs privacy deals with government spying. General electoral stuff deals with things revolving around elections like voter ID and abolishing the electoral college. Drug policy deals with the war on drugs and tobacco products (includes cigarette taxes and vape pens).

Unfortunately, I didn't have room for guns.
 
I don't know what 'electoral' means exactly, but I assumed electoral reform which is probably the closest to being 'get money and professional lobbying out of politics'; the root of most of the malaise in the American political system.
 
I'd like to ask each of you which policies you are focused on. Criminal justice system refers to things like how long should sentences last and whether prisons should focus on punishment or rehabilitation. National security vs privacy deals with government spying. General electoral stuff deals with things revolving around elections like voter ID and abolishing the electoral college. Drug policy deals with the war on drugs and tobacco products (includes cigarette taxes and vape pens).

Unfortunately, I didn't have room for guns.

I identified with Climate Change, but know that electing the right officials can address this problem and others. I don't want to be a rogue Warrior Nation. I think all drugs should be legal and the lowered costs would remove the criminal element. Prisons should be about rehabilitation. Defense policy should face the realities of threats, not build a behemoth armed force that is used to control others and generate obscene profits for War Profiteers and that includes Terror War, Drug War, Border War, Mass Media enhanced threats of war, Mutual Defense pacts with scumbag dictatorships, exaggerations of threats from Nations building armies and navies to defend themselves from US, the USA. However, Climate Change threatens to kill the Planet and/or threaten my progeny and the issue is black and white but being massaged by the Mass Media to fit Political objectives negatively.
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I'd like to ask each of you which policies you are focused on. Criminal justice system refers to things like how long should sentences last and whether prisons should focus on punishment or rehabilitation. National security vs privacy deals with government spying. General electoral stuff deals with things revolving around elections like voter ID and abolishing the electoral college. Drug policy deals with the war on drugs and tobacco products (includes cigarette taxes and vape pens).

Unfortunately, I didn't have room for guns.

In that case, instead of "not sure" I would have suggested that you used "Other, please explain" which would allow for selection and explanation.

Even though I don't own any guns, I typically vote for local and national candidates who oppose gun control and support the individual right to keep and bear arms using the most liberal interpretation of the Second Amendment's purposes.

This is because I believe in the individual's right to self defense and defense of others against all enemies of individual liberty both foreign and domestic as the foundation of a free society. That government should fear and serve the people, not be feared and be served by the people.

Having said that, any policy that allows for the least restrictions on individual liberty while pursuing group goals and expressed needs has my support. Thus the remaining options in your list would depend on my concerns as to how government actions balance individual citizen rights with local/national social concerns/expectations/needs.
 
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Abortion is the Slavery Issue of our time. All other issues pale and vanish in comparison.
 
The economy would be the closest to your list of answers because it is foundational to making progress in so many others but I don’t see why I’d need to have any specific policy area I consider more important than any other. Lots of areas are important and different policies in the same area can be of vastly difference importance. I think there is too much focus on single issues and topics and not enough on developing rounded and holistic policy platforms that work for everything and everyone (as much as is realistically possible).
 
Good questions.

I picked economy, as it covers a broad range, and incorporates many of the other potential selections.

The economy is impacted by policies related to immigration, foreign policy, national security, and even the agenda and objectives surrounding "climate change".
 
Without effective electoral reform and political campaign financing reform, all he other important issues on your list will be much harder to solve, so that's my choice. If these two reforms, electoral and campaign financing, were not obstacles in the way of other reforms, then I would say responsibly down-sizing the military, tackling remedies to climate change and rebuilding The State Department in order to conduct more diplomatic and less militaristic foreign policy are needed.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
Abortion is the Slavery Issue of our time. All other issues pale and vanish in comparison.

Not even close. Well, I guess they do have one thing in common: neither one is forbidden by the Bible.
 
I picked climate change. If we had a "normal" President who supported science (even if he does not understand it) and the rest of the world, I would not have picked this option which should NOT be a political issue at all. But since we have what we have, I have to go with survival of our species and more livable world for the kids....
 
Immigration. The open border policy of the Democratic Party would fundamentally and permanently negative harm our society and political system, shatter our economy and destroy our job market.
 
The Second Amendment is the basic right most under attack, so I rank it number one.

The Peter Ridd case in Australia has me questioning global warming.

Mass illegal immigration is an effort to destroy the middle class, unions, and create a malleable low wage population.
 
Hard choices. Most of us would pick many of them. I went with Criminal Justice 'cause one of my friend's wife is a court reporter who tells many horror stories on our system of unequal-justice. Won't bore you with a bunch of stories but (her words) boil down to this> You have money?..you made an error in judgement...go thee and sin no more. You're not rich? You piece of human-garbage...our punishment will be severe and long-lasting. Think THAT'S bad? It's worse than you can imagine. Most of her stories bring this poster to the Purple-Rage feeling. :( :(
 
Budget deficits, the national debt and unfunded liabilities are probably the biggest long term issue facing the nation.
 
Left a few out

Health care

Tax reform

Now the environment and getting big money out of politics are on the list.in a way

I think security and defense are way overblown by big money just to increase their profits
 
Climate change, but I voted "electoral" because until you clean up the massive, rampant abuses within our electoral system then climate change can't be addressed.
 
I'd like to ask each of you which policies you are focused on. Criminal justice system refers to things like how long should sentences last and whether prisons should focus on punishment or rehabilitation. National security vs privacy deals with government spying. General electoral stuff deals with things revolving around elections like voter ID and abolishing the electoral college. Drug policy deals with the war on drugs and tobacco products (includes cigarette taxes and vape pens).

Unfortunately, I didn't have room for guns.

How did you forget healthcare?
 
Climate change is most pressing issue, in terms of degree of change necessary to address combined with time window remaining.
The way our political system no longer seems to serve the country or the people as they were intended to is possibly a bigger and longer term issue - and in many ways underlies the climate change issue, because there has for decades been money in denying climate change is even remotely an issue.
Still is money in that.

And in one way or another, the power and influence money buys has captured large portions if not the majority of our government to serve the ends of whoever captured it.


I don't see that changing without some serious upheaval, and I'm not sure political upheaval will get it done, since it's trying to use the system which has been partially captured against itself to remove the ability for it to be captured and eliminate the parts already captured.
 
Criminal justice is the most important issue for me.

1. Only violent offenders should be jailed.

2. Any violent offender, including "kids," should be severely punished.

3. Violent street crime should be ruthlessly crushed.

4. Murderers should be executed.

5. Non-violent offenders should NOT be jailed.

a. They get probation.

b. They get home detention.

c. They get heavily fined.

d. They lose their jobs.

e. They are forced to pay restitution.

f. They are given meaningful community service.


A country is only as good as the character of its people. Judging from our crowded civil and criminal courts, the character of many American residents (both legal and illegal) is very bad. Things will only get worse in the coming decades as civility and courtesy continue their inevitable decline.
 
Election reform. Nothing meaningful is going to change in this country until we get rid of our broken election system.
 
Immigration. The open border policy of the Democratic Party would fundamentally and permanently negative harm our society and political system, shatter our economy and destroy our job market.

Exactly! By 2050 America will be a Third World nation. All ourur cities will look like Los
Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of Texas, Arizona and California will look like Mexico City.

When we all belong to “minorities,” what will hold us together? With the rise of group rights and identity
politics, we are already falling out and falling apart over racial preferences and ethnic entitlements.

Progressives adamantly refuse to act, apparently paralyzed by a belief that restricting the
free movement of peoples from foreign lands violates one of the great commandments of
liberal democracy. We are truly dealing here with an ideology of Western suicide.

Refusing to accept what human experience teaches is the mark of a liberal utopian ideologue.
For the last four decades maybe even five the prominent thinking by the Establishment tried
to 'create the concept of the ideal nation the most egalitarian, diverse & liberated that
ever existed.

'No stable society can stand on a theory running counter to reality’
 
I'd like to ask each of you which policies you are focused on. Criminal justice system refers to things like how long should sentences last and whether prisons should focus on punishment or rehabilitation. National security vs privacy deals with government spying. General electoral stuff deals with things revolving around elections like voter ID and abolishing the electoral college. Drug policy deals with the war on drugs and tobacco products (includes cigarette taxes and vape pens).

Unfortunately, I didn't have room for guns.

I would merely offer that all are important and not exclusive of each other. Had the first question not been oppositional, I likely would have chosen National Security, since all the others listed could be included in that reply.
I appreciate the effort you took to pose a poll. Than You for that.
Regards,
CP
 
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