What is your #1 issue?

[Starlight]

Automatic government funding of political parties / preventing political parties and politicians taking money from donors, would be my #1 I think.

[shunyadragon]

At least you recognize that evolution was ancient mythology that was reinstated in the 1800s

Yes, but it was not based on mythology, the Greeks based it on observing the progressive similarities of different members of the animal and plant kingdom, and gave it a Teleological frame of reference as in which everything in nature has a certain order or purpose. The rejection of the Teleological framework began with Descartes, and Darwin, though not the first to propose this, put it firmly into a scientific frame of reference with his research.

[Meh Gerbil]

Automatic government funding of political parties / preventing political parties and politicians taking money from donors, would be my #1 I think.

That's a pretty good one.

[Trout]

Good question.

[JonathanL]

My #1 issue is that there aren't enough hours in the day for me to slack off and do all the nothing in the world that I want to do.

[mikewhitney]

That's a pretty good one.

Finally we would have funding for the Gerbil party. Quite the party animal.

[Terraceth]

I have no problem with science.

I have a problem with the THEORY of evolution being taught as fact.

Etc.

Do you have a similar problem with the THEORY of gravity being taught as fact?

[Terraceth]

I don't know about that issue.
Would you explain?

"First past the post voting" is a system of voting where everyone votes for one candidate and whoever gets the most votes wins. It's used as the primary form of voting in a number of countries, such as the UK, US, and Canada. Like all voting systems, there's some pros and cons to it. I don't know exactly what EvoUK's specific issue with it is, but one of the biggest criticisms I've seen is that it encourages two political parties to dominate the political system. For example, the Democrats and Republicans have a stranglehold on the US political system. Canada and the UK aren't as bad in this department because there are a decent number of third parties that get elected on the national level, but both do have two political parties that are pretty much always #1 and #2 (Conservative Party and Liberal Party for Canada--yes, their parties are literally called the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party--and Labour Party and Conservative Party for the UK) and perhaps more pertinently, I believe it's much more common than not for one of those "top two" parties to be able to obtain a majority without needing a coalition.

Still, while I do think it favors a duopoly, I don't think that's inherent in the system, as there are other countries with first past the post voting that haven't succumbed to it as much as those countries have.

[rogue06]

America could use a replacement for that too, I think.

"First Past the Post" aka "plurality voting" is the name for the voting system that both the UK and the US currently have where the candidate that gets the most votes wins.

Oh goody. So all you need do is win the 4 or 5 largest states to become president reducing the rest to virtual colony status with little or no say in the matter. And liberals like to pretend that every vote counts, then again the way they rigged their primary system and debates to make absolutely sure that Hillary got "her turn" that got exposed as nothing but a lie.

[rogue06]

No, it was shuny's post flipped around to the other side of the coin.

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You've expressed this many times before without prodding.

[Leonhard]

I don't have a number one issue, I see all issues as being part of one whole cloth. Saying yes to one commits you to other things, and so forth.

However if I was a US citizen? Hmm.... repeal of Roe vs Wade and the dismantling of Planned Parenthood's abortion services.

[demi-conservative]

Politically, if you could force the government to fix only one issue your way what would be that issue and how would it be fixed?

Separation of religion and state.

[Starlight]

Oh goody. So all you need do is win the 4 or 5 largest states to become president reducing the rest to virtual colony status with little or no say in the matter.

Eh? You're off-topic as I was talking about the voting for congress members which is currently done by a FPP system which is a bad system.

Presidential elections based on the popular vote would not be much different to the current electoral college system, and would obviously involve many more states than just the 4-5 largest which seems to be a silly claim on your part. I take it as obvious that the current archaic electoral college system should be replaced with the popular vote (to stop the few swing-states being the tail that wags the dog if nothing else).

the way they rigged their primary system and debates to make absolutely sure that Hillary got "her turn"

Which was completely unacceptable to me precisely because I have high standards for democracy.

[mossrose]

Do you have a similar problem with the THEORY of gravity being taught as fact?

Gravity is repeatable and hence has been proven.

Evolution has not.

[mossrose]

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You've expressed this many times before without prodding.

You know what I believe about evolution. There's no reason to call me an ogre.