You're now a Single Issue Voter. What is it?

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Climate change. If we're talking real, actionable steps that I'm absolutely sure would move forward (and not get stuck in the current insane gridlock) that would probably be it.
 
Environmental sustainability, in this way it includes climate change but also broader issues such as micro plastic in the ocean, over fishing, species conservation, green energy and probably much more.
 
Reshape the entire Labor agreements. It would literally change everything. From how we organize ourselves as society to how we interact with people and the planet.

The system today is monolithic and completely inappropriate (a consequence of being adjusted to the conditions of one century ago !)

(reading various replies , many of those problems arise by how we organize ourselves , and the labor system)
 
Bowdz said:
Campaign finance reform/non-partisan redistricting.

No other issue would have as big an effect on improving the political climate and helping solve most other issues than this.
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Yep this. I can't really think of something that would have such a humongously positive long term effect on the country in general except perhaps higher education reform. But I feel like campaign finance reform and redistricting could lead to education improvements down the line anyway, so I vote for this.
 
Whether or not our next president kill baby Hitler if they were to time travel to the past.
 
Space Exploration and Research. The amount of money made from patents alone is worth the investment plus it gives kids hope and dreams that if they work hard they can help or even go to these places themselves. Plus I feel it fixes many problems within society as well with opening jobs and government student aid with real ROI in those fields but that's me.
 
msv said:
Corruption. In the government in particular. Or is that too wide of a subject?
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Unfortunately, I don't think there's any chance of corruption ever being addressed or remedied in our government, it's just much to integrated and central to the way politicians run their campaigns and maintain their seats/power.

I think my issue would be wage disparity. I think the country would operate a lot better with a larger middle class and more people in general having more money in their pockets. With more money you have more options and everyone likes to have options/choice. You would also have a larger tax base to draw from, so theoretically you could lower taxes, but have greater tax revenue.
 
Housing (I live in/grew up in London)
Be it rent caps for Private landlords (they can just use the infastructure in place for Housing Associations) or building more council housing.

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It is tough between this and NHS or Human rights, but I see rent as the thing least likely to change I guess. it's hard
 
To all the people saying "Climate change": How do you feel about nuclear energy?
 
Campaign finance reform is a big one. I feel that if you fix that then almost all the other issues could be seriously looked at. Big companies lining the pockets of politicians are preventing things like health care reform, education reform, lgbt rights, etc.
 
Energy (specifically clean energy), because it dictates so many of our (US) other actions, from our foreign policy to our (social/physical) infrastructure.
 
Money in politics

Anyone else saying anything else is wrong. This affects all issues and without fixing this first, you wont fix your pet issue.
 
Recreational Marijuana use in all 50 states. Once that passes in no time, I'll go for the renovation of our infrastructure.
 
Aureon said:
To all the people saying "Climate change": How do you feel about nuclear energy?
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My gut feeling is it's better than coal, but you've got to store the waste somewhere and be really stringent on safety measures since the accidents can be pretty fucking devastating. And that's not getting into talk of weaponization. I want to know more about Thorium reactors and keep increasing funding for solar power development, and keep improving energy effeciently standards. Right now every viable option I'm aware of has a pollution drawback somewhere along the line.

From an American hypothetical single issue voting perspective, one side of our two party system almost unanimously denies climate change is even a thing making that decision a lot easier at the polls :-P
 
Any candidate that works to curb fucking sprawl, the worst thing to ever happen in the US. I think that will work to fix everything else.

Living closer together in real cities the way humans are meant to (not citites built for cars) will:

-Promotoe tolerance of one another and laws that follow

-Drug addiction and alienation curbed

-Emissions reduced

-Education and school integration improved

-Economic segregation curbed

-Work productivity up when real transit exists and we aren't spending hours upon hours if our days in traffic

-Sense of community and comradery promoted instead of the fear shit culture we have today

-Greater awareness of other political issue, thus helping solve things like campaign finance

-People will realize gun are bad m'kay



I've thought this through pretty thoroughly and I can go into greater detail but this is a basic outline. I truly believe this. Quick and dirty post.

Solve sprawl and we solve a lot fucking more than that.
 
ChronotriggerJM said:
So say you woke up the next day, and you could only fixate on one political issue. What impacts you the most? You don't have to say who you're voting for, but what is it that you feel is of the utmost importance?

Where I'm at in my life, I feel like free college education / trade school should be the absolute priority. If the government couldn't get along over anything else, I'd like to see a more educated population that isn't drowning in debt. What say you Gaf?

I feel like with increased education, we could fill in some of these high skill jobs, and hopefully gain a more knowledgeable understanding of how screwed up the political system is, which would hopefully correct many things for future generations, though the current is probably screwed for a while.
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Education. It solves most problems as well
 
Citizen's United or climate change. Can't really decide between those two.

I wish I could say the social issues were all a given because I think the Republicans have went full-moron with their stances they're going to have to work their way towards the center to maintain electability... But my little theory on that could turn out to be bullshit.
 
So damn hard to choose just one. Climate change, basic income, universal healthcare, campaign finance reform, space exploration, income inequality, and education reform are all great choices.

If I had to choose just one, it would be climate change. All the other issues would be for naught if climate change makes our planet inhospitable to life.
 
Climate change forces itself to #1 out of sheer urgency. If there is one problem that needs fixed and needs fixed fast, that's it. Choosing something else is a bit like going grocery shopping while you are bleeding from a gun wound.
 
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