Well, the 2016 election season appears to be in full swing. We all know that gun rights are the premiere issue for most of us here, but we would like to know what else you care about deeply and passionately.
If a presidential candidate is bad on gun rights, it’s a deal breaker for me and many others here, I’m sure. However, for me personally, the economy is the second most important issue. Without a sound economic policy, it won’t take long for an overreaching government to start regulating other aspects of our lives.
So… other than gun rights, what is your issue?
As always, feel free to comment and explain further.
Everything is already effectively “regulated.” That which is not mandatory is prohibited, with the incredible negative and unintended consequences ignored by most people unless it affects them personally.
Democracy (and by extension the “republic’) is the insane idea that ordinary people are too evil and stupid to control their own lives, but somehow good and wise enough to choose others to do it for them.
I don’t vote. For anyone. Ordinary people will lose this “election,” just as they have every other political contest from the beginning. Only the “rulers” ever win anything this way. The good thing is that it seems more and more people are coming to understand that. What they will do about it is a very good question. TZP might ask that next…
I do know you and a lot of other folks here don’t vote. And I probably should have acknowledged that in the initial post. I was more curious about what issues, other than gun rights, are important to people. One doesn’t have to go cast a vote to consider an issue critical.
Individual liberty and self government are the most essential “issues” now, and always have been. What people decide about this is the foundation for all the other issues.
Liberty and self government are simply incompatible with the political process. 🙂
As me for I do vote.
Whether it has, can or will make a difference or not is definitely a matter of opinion.
Amnesty is important because polls show that with open borders 75% of those headed our way are anti 2nd amendment.
Our immoral national debt is important too as Jefferson once said;
“I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and encumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.”
However what is of the most importance to me is a candidate who espouses and prescribes of a path back to a constitutional small and limited government (divided and therefor weak) as our founders intended.
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” Jefferson
IMHO we have been taking the wrong path for way too long.
Johnny-come-lately to this question.
Justice. Absolute justice. Reward for the good, punishment for the bad, restitution for the victim – all without exception.
The “legal” ability to act the bully, to look the other way when authority or elites are involved, is the worse downslide a society can allow itself. It sets up all other laws and regulations against we, the people. It establishes victimless crimes. It removes any claim of that society to Rule Of Law. And it affords no recourse against the real transgressor, whoever it is – in the home, on the streets, in the courts, or by our (so-called) representatives.
(I realize this is not a _Presidential_ issue, but a societal issue.)