Which issue is most important to you at this time?

regarding the economic crisis, which is the major issue now. In an attempt to be realistic, I want to conclude these wars. We will save trillions right there. I wish I could believe we could actually avert economic calamity. Maybe we can.

Which pay reasonable wages with good benefits.
Oh, and make sure they are SECURE jobs.

All other efforts are pouring your blood down the toilet without getting clean, abundant, renewable, and available energy.

If you turn off the lights the party is over. Especially when you drown the world in toxic water trying to keep them on a few more years.

even the immediate life and death issues though I would never suggest abandoning any of them since in one way or another they are all linked to a simple problem.

Big money in politics. The main reason we get resistance in mutual survival issues even morons understand. The main reason good positions have to compromise with wrong and poisonous corporate interests. the main reason that reason itself much less the people are woefully underrepresented and hampered from even discussing searing, popular, globally tested black and white issues like single payer health care. The effects of getting such reform past the shameful weasel process we now have would be like a dam bursting, regardless how well actual representative government might ultimately handle the other problems we have now.

Because it is threatening to themselves, their processes of getting elected and the successful vested interests- and not accidentally distracted by incredible crises CAUSED by this usurpation of civil society- we will see little movement here and immediate results such as movement on other issues will not be forthcoming until we elect fairer representation.

:applause:

it would take some of the fear out of just trying to live

As evidenced in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5391367

With an honest media, issues would get fair airings and views like those of The Great Gasbag and other bloviationists would be played as the extreme, marginalized views they truly are.

to search for life. If we could find life on mars, it would answer a lot of questions I have about where there is life outside of earth.

Certainly not in the economic climate we have now, and not with the advent of more robotic ways to explore, which is far cheaper and obviously far safer.

If they did do a manned mission I'd volunteer though. :)