The most important issue in deciding the 2020 primary for Democratic presidential candidates?

 

Life and death; survival as a country, a species, a planet, nothing less.  Ridding the government of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and lobbyists like NRA are the first steps to implementing big, structural changes like instituting Universal Healthcare, changing gun laws, and affecting climate change.  Twelve of the thirty-two developed countries have universal healthcare.  The U.K. is an example of single-payor socialized medicine.  We can save lives and stop the bankruptcies of our citizens by curbing capitalism in healthcare, paying for it by rescinding the huge tax breaks given to billionaires by the GOP.   **  “More Americans have been killed by gun violence since 1968 than in all U.S. wars combined”, reported by NBC news.  The majority of Americans want more restrictive gun-control initiatives enacted.  We should obsolete wars and guns.    Climate change affects lives, economies, migrations and even wars in foreign countries.  Humans have damaged the environment, and humans can mitigate damages; we must embrace a Green New-Deal.   Apathy, Ignorance & Disinformation are hugely consequential.

Trish Forsyth Voss