Out of all the issues we face as Americans, what do you think ranks #1? This issue could be facing you. It could be facing your family, your partner. We can only do 10 options, but I'll pick on the ones which seem to be the most pressing for people.
ABORTION/BIRTH CONTROL. This applies to either pro-life or pro-choice folks. If you're pro-life, you're concerned about the number of babies getting murdered and denied the 5th and 14th amendment. If you're pro-choice, you're concerned about religious fanatics trying to take away a women's right to her own body and choices in life. You're concerned about future supreme court justices and access to birth control.
DISCRIMINATION. Our society has made many advances in civil rights, such as the 1964 civil rights act and disability act, but we're still seeing minorities getting abused by our system. We're seeing gay, lesbian, transgender, and gender non-conformist being treated as second-class citizens. Disabled Americans are being thrown under the bus and denied equal opportunity. You would somebody who would support the MeToo movement, Black Lives Matter, expanding disability laws, and/or support passing the Equality Act, adding gender identity or sexual orientation to federally protected civil rights laws.
ECONOMY. You feel people, including yourself or loved ones, in our society are underemployed. They are being underpaid and/or lacking their maximum potential. People can get employment, but they are poor jobs.
EDUCATION. You feel schools, whether be K-12 education or colleges, are being under funded and/or people cannot afford to go to college or trade school. There is not enough money to fund social workers, teachers, and provide adequate security to keep kids and young adults safe. Student debt is big for you as well.
THE ENVIRONMENT. You have this mentality: There is too much pollution in our society. It's impacting our air, our drinking water (Flint anybody), and our storms. If we do not act now, species will die off. Hurricanes and earthquakes will get worse. Cities will flood. We might have to wear masks in order to walk the streets.
FOREIGN POLICY. This can apply to both the hawks and doves around here. If you're a hawk, you feel America isn't doing enough to stop global terrorism and needs to spend more money helping out our allies. If you're a dove, you feel we give too much money to countries which hate us or abusive to us. You feel we're getting into too many military conflicts and it's causing our debt and deficit to rise, and diverting our attention away from our wars at home.
GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION/DYSFUNCTION. This could mean a number of things, but it all centers around how corrupt and inept our government is. This could mean you're upset about our electoral college system (move toward popular vote, proportional system). This could mean you want money out of politics aka influence of special interest groups and foreign governments in our elections. This could mean, you're tired of our highly partisan, binary Republican vs. Democrat system. This means, you feel our justice system is allowing criminals to get away with things, and putting the wrong people in jail or give them excessive punishment. This could mean you're concerned about gerrymandering.
GUNS/VIOLENCE. You have this mentality: Another day, another mass shooting, another hate crime, another day of blood shed on our streets. The madness needs to stop. We need to look at our gun policies and how we as human beings get along with each other.
HEALTH-CARE. You feel people in America, including yourself or family members, are paying too much for health-care insurance/expenses and it's eating away at ones wallet, and/or you feel Americans cannot afford vital drugs and medication necessary to live a productive and healthy life. You're in the camp for Medicare-For-All, Public Option, or deregulation of the health-care industry.
TRADITIONAL VALUES ON THE DECLINE. This is for our religious right friends here. You feel the growing acceptance of homosexuals and transgenders are hurting our society, and taking away your religious freedoms. You do not like the fact gays and lesbians can get married. You hate the fact that men are posing as women or women are posing as men, and asking to be accepted as something God didn't choose for them. You feel secularists are undermining Christmas, prayer in school, and/or ability to put Christian symbols in government buildings.
My apologies if I didn't include your issue. Not only participate in the poll, but name me your top 3 and why you feel this way.
