What problem are you most worried about?

[Quixote1818]

[ck4829]

1. Cut off the 'christian' Right and we can fix the serious problems we have.

[bryant69]

2. The Fundamentalists

So worrisome they get two categories?

Bryant
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[Citizen Jane]

3. Other

1-8 are all worries, hard to decide the worst.

But, other worries include:

the possibility of Jeb as POTUS

whether or not my 2.5 year old will have any kind of a place worth living in when the neo-cons are done with it

[Terran]

4. Um, folks, better worry more about the environment & population

or nothing else will matter much. We won't even have a civilization to worry about. We could solve all the other problems tomorrow and our survival will still be threatened.

[Quixote1818]

8. Then again, corporate power and fundamentalist dogma make

it harder to fix the environment and over population because they block everything and cloud the facts and message. You almost have to fix corporate power before you can fix the environment.

[Goldmund]

5. Corporate power,

because it's a more-or-less direct cause of all the other ills you list.

Excluding Sponge Bob, of course. ;)

[napi21]

7. That's the reason I checked Corporate Power too!

If it weren't for Corp Power, all the others could be easily fixed.

[Quixote1818]

11. Me too

Unchecked Capitalism could turn out to be the most dangerous thing that every happened to this world. It could ultimately lead to the worlds demise. How ironic.

[bertha katzenengel]

6. one & two, hands down, no doubt, no question

Without a clean, safe earth on which to live, politics don't matter.

[BuyingThyme]

9. Christian Fundamentalism

[toddaa]

10. #2: Global Warming and Peak Oil

The double whammy of apocalyptic nightmares.

[sintax]

12. The most pressing issue of our day is obviously

the destruction of our Biosphere. Pretty amazing that other issues rate higher in that when you're dead you you don't have the possibility of concerning yourself with these other issues.

Militarism rates high as it is the main contributor to global warming.

[Quixote1818]

13. But when you have corporations effecting environmental policy then

nothing gets done so in a way corporations are an even bigger threat. The greedy bastards only care about themselves and their wealth and power and could care less about their children and grand children and everyone else on the planet. Corporate power and Fundamentalist Religions do more to stop things from being done to save the environment than any group.

[sintax]

14. Let's not forget

the impact of our daily lives. While it's easy and appropriate to blame corporations too many refuse to draw connections to their consumption, particularly with their gadgets, and global warming.

examine the impacts on the environment of ONE Cell Phone. It is staggering. But noone wants to give up their toys. Everyone has a thousand rationalizations for why they "need" this cellular instrument of mass destruction.

The Eastern Lowland Gorilla will be extinct in a few years due to coltan mining which is the essential component in cell phones.

The Civil War in the Congo is fueled by the West's thirst for High Tech Gadgets and the minerals used in components. All of this minig also creates tons of greenhouse gasses.

Hang it up for good.

[CrispyQ]

15. Corporate power - absolutely

Artificial persons are running & ruining this country & the world. They do so with the help of traitorous natural persons, CEOs, BODs, shareholders & corrupt government officials -- all who have been bought & paid for by the artificial beings.

The only alligence artificial being s have is to the bottom line. They don't need clean air, clean water, safe food supplies, health care. Until we get these beings & the traitors who support & help them out of power, ours is a lost cause. Corporations need to be put back in their proper place.


http://reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/

snip...

Our Bill of Rights was the result of tremendous efforts to institutionalize and protect the rights of human beings. It strengthened the premise of our Constitution: that the people are the root of all power and authority for government. This vision has made our Constitution and government a model emulated in many nations.

But corporate lawyers (acting as both attorneys and judges) subverted our Bill of Rights in the late 1800's by establishing the doctrine of "corporate personhood" -- the claim that corporations were intended to fully enjoy the legal status and protections created for human beings.

We believe that corporations are not persons and possess only the privileges we willfully grant them. Granting corporations the status of legal "persons" effectively rewrites the Constitution to serve corporate interests as though they were human interests. Ultimately, the doctrine of granting constitutional rights to corporations gives a thing illegitimate privilege and power that undermines our freedom and authority as citizens. While corporations are setting the agenda on issues in our Congress and courts, We the People are not; for we can never speak as loudly with our own voices as corporations can with the unlimited amplification of money.


*text bolded by me