What should be the number one issue on Democratic Underground right now?

What do you think? This is just a straw poll to see where people stand, what their priorities are. Please feel free to explain your reasoning below -- in fact, I'd encourage it.

is to destroy support for the 'war'.

Go Johnny Go !

in place.

Some of the worst things happening in America are happening because of a political power imbalance caused by an economic power imbalance.

Sorry, but the first question should be,

SHOULD there be a priority of issues, with one being the most important?
Assuming that there is ONE above others that DU should concentrate on is wrong.

Partly, this place acts as a conversation ground, an education center, a place to check for breaking news and braking gnus, a place to vent and a place to share ideas, experiences and hopes. Putting any one issue into that mix and calling it the most important is impossible.

Second, none of those issues, (all are important, I agree) can be considered to be #1. News happens all the time (just last week, a second grand jury empanelled, Scanlon flips on his buddies and we learn that Bush wanted to waste Al Jazera with a well-aimed missile - ALL of those become incredibly important) and those changes are what keep this place hopping.

I like the idea, I understand the question, but I think this poll fails on those two points.
no offense.

it seems the # 1 issue whether shopping for christmas is evil or tolerable.

(which are "non-negotiable" - like Roe, Darwinism, etc.)

1. The War and the Material Misrepresentations that got us into it. (Secondarily as side issues to the war - Peak Oil, The Fundamental Dishonesty of the Bush White House, Valerie Plame).

2. The breach of the "non-establishment" clause of the First Amendment. (Allied issues - Stem Cell Research, Darwinian Evolution)

3. Health Care.

Lower Down--

1. The decline and fall of education.

2. The sharp and growing bifurcation between Bush's "Have Mores" and the "Have Nots." - Health Care (again), Social Security Piratization,the "MBNA-CITI" Bankruptcy Code, FPBGC, Tax Code Non-Reform.

3. The Hackocracy - Michael Brown, Cristina Beato, John Snow, etc., etc., etc.

under direct observation by members of all parties, and the result immediately called in by telephone to the Supervisor of Elections headquarters, every other issue to preserve our democracy will be stolen from us.

finding the truth about what happened on 9/11 . . . being that it was the "new Pearl Harbor" that the PNAC coveted and that BushCo used as the excuse to invade and occupy Iraq (and completely hammer civil rights and liberties here at home via the Patriot Act) . . . and given that nothing about the "official" story holds water . . .

I agree with you totally. If we go forward into the future believing the lie that Islamic fundamentalists were responsible for the events of 9/11, we will be operating from a VERY FLAWED perception of the world. Decisions will be made upon false premises, and those will invariably lead to far greater disaster.

This is no joke.

But few people even realize there is a problem, much less its significance. Unless something comes forward that puts 9/11 front and center in social consciousness as a real question, it will not be a political item anyone near the 'main stream' will touch.

Third parties, however, will be quite a different matter.

we get distracted with all the other important issues that are already debated in the MSM & here, we will wake up one Wednesday morning and wonder what the heck happened again.

All issues need equal attention, election fraud however is getting little attention anywhere even though it is a personal attack on all of us.

Make sure everyone reads the GAO report

www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf

Democratic brains can handle it.

And the Truth.

We must address all of these issues simultaneously.

clean elections lead to solving the rest

Everything else pales in comparison

I think we should celebrate the fact that things can get done on many fronts, rather than trying to identify something that everyone 'should' focus on. It is an interesting exercise though, to see what people pick.

So for this poll, I pick 'other'.