What is the Number one social problem in America Today?

Answer 1

APATHY

Answer 2

ignorance ..we don't educate our children allot of the lessons we learn in the past are lost ...the main reason for this is experience
the young haven't experience certain things and if they aren't taught they wont know everything is new to a young mind they believe their the first to do it...truth is there nothing new under the sun ..whether it be war, race relations ,sex or finances
but those who have the knowledge unfortunately use it to negatively influence the youths...for personal gain ...gangs ,drugs ,war...and racism is simply not understanding but in order to over *** that you have to put down the psp turn off the music videos ...stop believing everything you see in the media and open your mind but to answer your question its simple ignorance..and lack of education were to much into entertainment a 2 hr movie rakes in 250 million dollars over 3 or 4 weeks a two church service rakes in 250 dollars over two months ....a video game cost 50 bucks a book half that

Answer 3

That depends on how broadly one asks the question, and regarding the type of problem as well. For victims of crime, that may top their list. If you ask what is the top social problem that would cure most ills in the nation today if resolved, to me that would be ignorance.

I mean the ignorance that comes from overindoctrination in our schools as to the norms of our social interactions. Few are able to think for themselves, let alone figure out what is right and wrong. It seems those who can think objectively well are those who escaped the brainwashing of the public schools, either by dropping out in the later grades or by being brought up in private or home schools.

Most new ideas in science are invented by mavericks who buck the overwhelming rules of conformity that are impressed on all who toil in laboratories. New ideas are immediately ridiculed by most in the field they pertain to, even when they are good ideas.

The proof of all this that I claim is evident in the voting patterns of the nation. The poor and the minorities have no confidence in their democratic society, and most of that is justified, since the American Revolution was almost immediately co-opted by those in power who used it to have things turn out their way. It is no different today.

Capitalism is not a democracy - it is an economic system that operates on the best and the worst instincts of Man. We live today in a world of "Survival of the Fittest", and so our society is much less than a civil society, but much more than a caveman existence. Within that range, all of us experience life as winners and losers, victims or trespassers.

Here and elsewhere too, power translates directly dollar-for-dollar. If I have one dollar more than you, I have one dollar's worth of power more than you have. The problem is in how I use that dollar - to help you and thus improve your lot, or to keep you down below me so that "there but for the grace of God go I".

The schools teach competition between everyone instead of reaching for a world united, and the reason for that is to satisfy the need for workers to perpetuate the economic system we all love so well. To do that, unfortunately, means that economics must come before human suffering and need. Our social system is not a true democracy either. It is based on the notion that the men who make the rules will do so for the betterment of their constituencies instead of fattening their power extents over us.

The problem there is, of course, what will happen when those men all get together to have their way with us? The few hard-won freedoms - our substantive rights - are at almost daily attack from those who would give more power to economic ideas than to democratic ideas.

Those same men have enriched themselves personally and as a body immensely at our expense through the years. Thus, they have more power individually than you and me, and as a group they hold ultimate power over the population.

One may say I'm making a pitch for voting, but that is not the answer either because the ignorance of political unconsciousness prevails in our society such that voters more often vote against their own best interests than for them. That can be fixed, and if we need to select one social problem that can be fixed, I have proposed an organization to help minorities to learn the issues involved in electoral races so that they can not only learn how to vote in favor of themelves, but so that they will be motivated to go to the polls in greater numbers. This is not new. It is patterned after the League of Women Voters, a very successful political group.

I fear that we can never achieve such lofty goals as unity among Mankind until our brains evolve to the point where greed is not correlated with survival. We cannot help but be greedy, or else we will die out. But at different stages of evolution, Man has come out the better for it. From survival of the fittest, to desire noble deeds. I regret not having been born much later in a time where civil society is much more "civil" than it is today, but I do not regret having been born at all.

Answer 4

Urban disparity. There's an increasing gap between the rich and poor.

Answer 5

Apathy.

Answer 6

Gang activity.

Answer 7

george "the weasel" bush- more like a social disease.

Answer 8

Wealth accumulation is my vote....mark my words

Answer 9

health care

Answer 10

Stupid people asking stupid questions.