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1. President Obama: Too sold out to Wall Street, as much as Bush was sold out to the Oil Industry.
2. Women's rights and the issue of sexism: all people should be treated with equal respect and honour. women are people, so that answers that question.
3. Class relations: the united states is today divided into rich and poor as at no time in history.
4. Weapons, firearms and self-defense laws: in the states, the right to bear arms should not be infringed. people are generally good people, and owning firearms doesn't make you a bad person. restricting handguns to people with licenses and a background check and ID is a good idea, since handguns are what criminals use. That's not to say that all people who have handguns are criminals, but it makes prudent sense to keep track of the ones that we know about.
5. War (not necessarily the one/s in the middle east, but war as a whole historically and today): is hell - but sometimes a civil war is necessary to overthrow a tyrannical government.
6. The role of the military in modern society as opposed to past society: better the military answers to civilian government than the other way around.
7. Abortion: should be legal and covered by public health.
8. Religion: freedom of religion is up there with freedom of the press.
9. The environment: it's the only one we have, and our great grandchildren will need it as much as we do today.
10. Affirmative action and race relations: if there were no more racism, I'd be happy. unfortunately, there's always going to be some dumb assholes out there.
11. The current plague of mental illness in our society including disorders and diseases such as Asperger's/Autism, OCD, ADHD, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy etc.:
12. Drugs, illegal and otherwise: many illegal drugs should be made legal. the sale of addictive drugs should remain illegal outside of medical practice.
13. Politics today vs. in the past : in the states, YOU ALL GONE CRAZY ALL THE SUDDEN.