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Question: What is most concerning to you about the current state of the U.S.?
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global warming
 
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Race-fuelled violence OR Police shootings OR Riots OR BLM OR CriminalJustice Reform
 
#3
income inequality
 
#4
ISIS
 
#5
immigrants from Mexico
 
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poor infrastructure
 
#7
Obamacare
 
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affording healthcare/college/childcare/housing/food/transportation/retirement/leave
 
#9
jobs going to China
 
#10
taxes /regulations
 
#11
not enough coal mining / oil drilling / fracking
 
#12
state of public schools
 
#13
Mass Shootings / Gun Violence
 
#14
government trying to take away guns
 
#15
Islamophobia
 
#16
Addiction / Substance Abuse/ Heroin epidemic
 
#17
superPACs
 
#18
the Big Banks
 
#19
Labor Unions
 
#20
gay rights
 
#21
abortion
 
#22
Voting reform
 
#23
threat of Russia
 
#24
threat of North Korea
 
#25
threat of Iran
 
#26
Cybersecurity
 
#27
Drones
 
#28
the 4.9% unemployment rate
 
#29
the $410b budget deficit
 
#30
OTHER
 
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« on: September 21, 2016, 10:34:56 PM »
« edited: October 06, 2016, 07:43:55 PM by Blue3 »

What is most concerning or upsetting to you about the current state of the U.S.?


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« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2016, 10:40:30 PM »

Inequality, affording stuff (which are the same thing), and public schools (which is also related to the former).
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« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2016, 10:43:02 PM »

Racial unrest, taxes/regulations, ISIS.
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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2016, 10:50:37 PM »

Climate change, all forms of inequality (checked economic inequality, but racial issues are also important,) and the state of education in general.
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« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2016, 10:53:01 PM »

1. Abortion: Obvious
2. Race-fueled violence: a human rights issue
3. Poor infrastructure: a common sense matter that must be addressed appropriately before someone dies and so people can live in adequate places
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4. Income inequality: Maybe chalk it up into the 'affording stuff' category like Tony says
5. Public Schools: the great foundation on which much can be achieved
6. Addiction: one I don't see and the serious cases don't affect me, but the epidemic is clearly incredibly serious especially because it isn't visible.


Those are the 6 I care about - I have a smaller degree of care about "The Bankers" and some towards labor unions, but it pales to the above.
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« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2016, 11:08:57 PM »

The race problems/police violence/our broken justice system, the poor state of our infrastructure, and income inequality.

If we put more effort into these three things.... we'd be a more content nation.
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« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2016, 01:09:15 AM »

People saying things I don't agree with and getting away with it.
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« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2016, 03:22:42 AM »

Defict/Debt , Partisan Politics , ISIS
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« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2016, 07:34:01 AM »

Poor infrastructure, poor schools, and our ongoing budget deficit in the middle of an expanding economy. All are symptoms of our delusion we can get the government services we need without actually paying for them.
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« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2016, 07:46:05 AM »

Public schools, income inequality, and big banks in that order.
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« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2016, 07:50:11 AM »
« Edited: September 22, 2016, 07:54:34 AM by bronz4141 »

Climate change, all forms of inequality (checked economic inequality, but racial issues are also important,) and the state of education in general.

This looks about right to me.


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You think Islamic terrorism is a joke. Its a significant concern. Most leftists do, either because they secretly support them, or they're naive. Foreign policy is another big concern.
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« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2016, 08:21:18 AM »

the Banks and Cybersecurity...and lets say....the infrastructure.  But none of them are an actual threat to our continued existence.

I wouldn't be shocked if a general pessimism caused by the media is a bigger roadblock to more success than anything else though.
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« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2016, 08:31:33 AM »

wait, where is the "clowns" option for the crazy people in the southeast currently freaking out over them?
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« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2016, 09:14:31 AM »

Where's the option for this:



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« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2016, 09:21:52 AM »

You think a bunch of hillbillies are going to start a second civil war with shotguns and revolvers?
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« Reply #15 on: September 22, 2016, 10:02:11 AM »

You think a bunch of hillbillies are going to start a second civil war with shotguns and revolvers?

I could see a Peasants' Militia marching in Trump's inaugural parade.

Beside the point, I see Civil Rights, "Human Infrastructure" (research, education, healthcare reform), and the long game when it comes to National Security (global warming, the fact no one can go toe-to-toe with us yet but might, and who the next terrorists will be (this goes into the entire Civil Rights thing,too if you think about it.)

I am not really worried about things like Social Security or taxes being too high or too low compared to these other issues. If I think other things can be incidentally improved by it, I favor defense spending.
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« Reply #16 on: September 22, 2016, 10:05:54 AM »

Also getting out of the Middle East as well.
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« Reply #17 on: September 22, 2016, 10:07:01 AM »

Global warming, income ≠, afflording stuff.

But most of these are concerning.
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« Reply #18 on: September 22, 2016, 10:22:25 AM »

Abortion, religious liberty, moral decay in general
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« Reply #19 on: September 22, 2016, 10:49:13 AM »

schools, infrastructure, and budget deficit
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« Reply #20 on: September 22, 2016, 11:14:40 AM »
« Edited: September 22, 2016, 11:16:44 AM by PR »

Climate change, increased poverty and economic insecurity, extreme economic and racial inequality and the rollback of both the welfare state and civil rights gains, the growing divide in education between students from wealthy families and students from working class and poor families, the decline of social mobility, the state of American infrastructure, the privatization and hollowing out of public goods, gun violence, the utter vapidness of the mass media and a celebrity-obsessed culture, the fact that Donald Trump has a very real chance of becoming President and the implications thereof...
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« Reply #21 on: September 22, 2016, 12:03:44 PM »

Climate change, inequality in general, the general breakdown of any kind of productive relationship between organized religion and the rest of society (for which there's more than enough blame to go around). Oh and what Umberto Eco called 'hot wars and media populism'.
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« Reply #22 on: September 22, 2016, 12:09:13 PM »

Race riots/failing infrastructure/outsourcing.
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« Reply #23 on: September 22, 2016, 01:28:56 PM »

White racism/alt-right
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« Reply #24 on: September 22, 2016, 02:53:24 PM »

Capitalism
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