Spoiled Milk
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WRONG it didn't hit all of your buttons because 11 states are suing the supreme court to prevent that from happening to our kids.
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Captain Pants
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I just want the Supreme Court safe and sound. We need to survive the death throws of the GOP and secure progressive ideals for a generation. I don't really have one issue that's driving me. I feel like there's a general progressive force that is gaining steam in our country and between Obama's steady hand and the Supreme Court, we're getting there. Right now I just want calm, rational, and progressive leadership to keep winning out over the dumpster fire that is American conservatism.
Jack Remington
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I know a fair bit. I only caught a bit of his speech anyway. What he was saying during the minute or so I was watching sounded great.
Orbis Tabula
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I'm not sure if I'd say "most important" but I think student loan debt is a crazy important issue that I'd like to see more focus on. I think we've got a giant generation of young Americans who are delaying on buying houses, buying cars, and starting families because they're in debt for tens of thousands of dollars on degrees that they haven't been able to leverage enough to pay off the debt. I think it's a time bomb and I don't really see a solution beyond some sort of loan forgiveness.
PantherLotus
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The most important issue by far is down-ballot electoral gains in the house and senate. Global Warming, Income Inequality, the Student Loan crisis, military adventurism, SCOTUS ... it all starts there.
Spoiled Milk
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Proving once again that you are my favorite poster, the post has been updated to reflect that you are on the right side of history.
Not letting a republican appoint the next Supreme Court justice.
Not plunging the world into global recession on pointless trade wars just to show swagger.
User 463088
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Oh god, hasn't Cleveland suffered enough!?
Orbis Tabula
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Oh, you and your flattery.
AntraxSuicide
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I'll say a public mandate that rebukes the GOP and their current crazy philosophy. When Hillary wins, it'll hopefully shatter the argument that the majority of Americans support their shit.
With Obama, they could pass it off as people getting hoodwinked. Not gonna happen with a Clinton. We know who we're voting for, and the white nationalist will lose. As a country, we need to push back hard on the current right-wing philosophy.
Edit: This is to answer Kristoffer's question.
With Obama, they could pass it off as people getting hoodwinked. Not gonna happen with a Clinton. We know who we're voting for, and the white nationalist will lose. As a country, we need to push back hard on the current right-wing philosophy.
Edit: This is to answer Kristoffer's question.
Part of me wishes Bernie had won this, and netted 0 delegates.
Knuckle Sandwich
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Supreme Court.
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
One big issue for me is overhauling our education system. I don't think school funding should be so reliant on property taxes. As a guy who grew up in the middle of nowhere and went to a school that was falling apart, it's crazy to me to see the increase in quality for the schools here in Boise. I feel like it rigs the system pretty early on if poor people don't get access to the same quality of schooling as people in affluent areas.
Jack Remington
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For me it's the public option and medical pricing reform of one sort or another. Pharmaceuticals need to cost less, procedures need to cost less, and patients need to be able to find out ahead of time what they're going to be paying. We shouldn't have a procedure cost $5,000 at one hospital and $40,000 at another.
User 463088
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Ugh, I totally get you there. This is one of the things that gets me. Ohio schools are funded through levies...that the Ohio Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional. But they still exist to this day. A few years ago, we had to fight tooth and nail to get a tiny levy passed (I think it was 2% might have been less...) Without it, we'd have been totally fucked. It barely passed. It's offensive that we don't have a better system.
UFOs.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Trump really said that our allies being rattled by his campaign is good.
People are stupid.
People are stupid.
I'm not sure I have a biggest issue. They're all so important. Immigration, rising healthcare costs, etc.
I guess income inequality is probably number one, but then again I don't really love either Democratic candidate on that issue.
Oh wait, I change my answer!
I guess income inequality is probably number one, but then again I don't really love either Democratic candidate on that issue.
Oh wait, I change my answer!
googleplex
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Hey! I voted against bush. Twice! I did my part.
FloydtheFathead
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Just banking Karma points.
Joe Shlabotnik
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SC, presidential competency
Hexa
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Infrastructure. The National Infrastructure Bank is too little too late, but it's the best offer on the table so I'll take it.
People love that patriarchal, alpha male bullshit. It's the foundation of the conservative movement, in my eyes, and their hate for "pussy liberals".
Knuckle Sandwich
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Hillary is a reptilian. She's not going to spill the beans on their plans.
RastaMentality
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Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
To my eternal shame, I voted for Bush in 2000. I don't know why older and smarter people than me believed it, but there was a story going around that Al Gore wanted to turn the majority of Idaho into a national park and effectively kick everyone out, and I being a dumb 18 year old, bought into it. Four years, a 9/11 and two wars later and my world view and understanding of politics was vastly different. Election night 2004 was such a sad night.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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The last time we had this focus on toxic masculinity in the GOP, a serial child rapist was Speaker and we invaded Iraq for no reason whatsoever.
User 463088
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balladofwindfishes
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The Supreme Court, to ensure that social issues remain taken care of, and that innocent people's rights don't get trampled by stupid red states who seem to pass laws out of spite these days.
nature boy
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I'm actually pretty cool with Bernie debating Trump, left Sanders soften Trump up a bit and waste some of his bullets.
But I think Trump is just pandering.
But I think Trump is just pandering.
AntraxSuicide
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Anecdotally, almost none of my teachers were qualified to teach their classes. I'm lucky that I understood the textbooks, but the teachers were all old hires from the 70s (when their degree requirements were much lower) and they shouldn't still be teaching now.
I only figured it out when my math teachers couldn't do problems that weren't in the textbook. Those books were old (which is fine in math) and they had basically memorized the answers instead of how to do them. Real eye opener.
Mississippi needs better standards.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Native America journalist on Trump calling Warren Pocahontas: "It's offensive."
What do edgy white males on the internet say though.
What do edgy white males on the internet say though.
The US's allies are going to be really happy when he loses the GE.
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Constitutional/institutional reform.
It's almost always the most important issue for any democracy. You care about issue x? You can't fix issue x if the mechanisms necessary to fix issue x are broken, or it becomes much more difficult to do so.
Then global warming, simply given the scale of the harm, then foreign policy from an internationalist perspective because e.g. the War on Terror has had more impact on human well-being than anything else America has done in the last two decades and sadly not in a good way, and then income inequality, because once you're past the kind of critical harm that is global warming/foreign policy, it is the most immediate and pressing problem facing America. SCOTUS is a means to an end to both, so more important in that sense, but that's not really a major policy area, you just win and you have it. It's not an issue so much as a one and done, I think it is pretty incommensurate to different policy areas you have to expend different amounts of political capital on. pigeon is right re: nuclear armageddon being important, but it is probably a moot point in that I don't think any of the candidates pose genuine risk (although none of them genuinely have much chance of implementing constitutional/institutional reform, so meh...).
It's almost always the most important issue for any democracy. You care about issue x? You can't fix issue x if the mechanisms necessary to fix issue x are broken, or it becomes much more difficult to do so.
Then global warming, simply given the scale of the harm, then foreign policy from an internationalist perspective because e.g. the War on Terror has had more impact on human well-being than anything else America has done in the last two decades and sadly not in a good way, and then income inequality, because once you're past the kind of critical harm that is global warming/foreign policy, it is the most immediate and pressing problem facing America. SCOTUS is a means to an end to both, so more important in that sense, but that's not really a major policy area, you just win and you have it. It's not an issue so much as a one and done, I think it is pretty incommensurate to different policy areas you have to expend different amounts of political capital on. pigeon is right re: nuclear armageddon being important, but it is probably a moot point in that I don't think any of the candidates pose genuine risk (although none of them genuinely have much chance of implementing constitutional/institutional reform, so meh...).
Well in addition to this, there really needs to be a destigmatization of trade schools. Every kid today is conditioned to think a college degree is necessary for a successful life, and that working as an electrician, plumber, or other trade is beneath them. Then they go to college and have no idea what they want to do with their lives. Meanwhile, I know electricians that would pay a fresh high school graduate $15 an hour to learn the trade. Putting an emphasis on trade schools should be a big part of the student debt problem.
Might be his new energy advisor. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-donald-trump-s-new-energy-adviser/
Captain Pants
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Wow... yeah. That's real bad. At my high school, we only had to take Algebra 1 and Geometry, and every math class beyond that was an elective, so of course, we all chose to do fun stuff instead. When I finally realized that I should know math, I was in college trying to pass Math 025 and failing miserably. Never let a kid choose between art classes and math classes. Chances are good he'll fuck himself over.
I mean I thought that was assumed... But if we have to say this specifically, thin this is my answer.
I would've named SCOTUS, but figured I'd go with something more existential.
But damn if you're not right.. It's going to be miiiighty interesting when social conservatives realize that most of the court cases regarding their state-level actions will end in similar fashion. Their reactions are going to be something else.
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IAmAnAgnostic
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They're building it up so they can tear into Trump when he backs out.
eBay Huckster
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I did that once!
It wasn't fun. Also I think I bombed one of the two.
This makes me even more immeasurably glad that I'm not going to be in Cleveland until a week after the convention!
For the sake of OT's collective soul not getting snatched, I hope to God you're right.
Orbis Tabula
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Agreed. Although, I want to learn more on the subject. This seems like something that's so obvious, and I hear it from both sides so often, yet I don't see it happening. That tells me there must be something going on that I just don't understand. Some unknown unknown is floating around in there.
But yeah, the whole "everyone needs to go to college" idea is a huge part of any future student debt crisis. Just like "everyone needs to own a home" led to the big housing crisis. I mean, I'm admittedly not terribly well versed in the field, but from my understanding, there's an alarming degree of similarity between housing pre-2008 and student debt stuff now. The only thing that will make this turn out better if the bubble ever bursts is that I don't think the average person is going to be hurt as bad, because I don't think the big banks are as invested in the student loan market as they were in the housing market.
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