What issues in this election are false issues, red herrings meant to distract us from the real issues?

Answer 1

Gay Marriage and flag burning...the usual ones that the GOP brings to the ballot box to help their chances. Neither of these issues means jack crap in the grand scheme of things. Not one American would be hurt or affected by either issue.

Answer 2

Retitle your question to: Do either policital parties in the U.S. try to distract people from real issues until the election? Then you will have a real, intelligent question. Obama and Hillary are figthing each other on the I'm black/you're white, I'm a man/you're a woman, I'm more liberal/a democrat, I'm a Christian/you might be a Muslim that coverted to Christianity and/or pretending to be a Christian. The 2 party system is corrupt, allows for minimal/no compromizing, and accomplishes nothing productive. Let's sum up both sides of the argument. Democrats/Liberals: Anything goes, everyone should have the right to do whatever they want, whenever they want, and we should only control how we regulate big business, the environment, and any other random issue 1 person can come up with. Republicans/Conservatives: Christianity is right, everything else is wrong. Let big business do what it wants, let the states rule themselves, and the national government should stay out of the way. Both of those summaries are total BS. Money and power are the 2 issues that need to be addressed. Politicians are responsible to the voters/"people" that voted them in ... period, end of story. As long as both of the 2 parties engage in whatever corrupt/immoral issues that benefit them and not the people they represent, the U.S. will continue to decline and collapse of it's own violition. Ethics and morals are things of the past; and until we can restore doing what is right, we will continue to destroy ourselves. Every nation will fall given enough time. Adhering to 1 extreme or the polar opposite will guarantee that collapse. "Ce la vie" is not an effective means of government or way of life. Some people will desire to have more than others, human nature. Work for what you want, aspire to be the best you can be, and accept that nothing is perfect. Edit/Follow-Up: Another Clinton is office equals let's try to placate the dictators/tyrants/ego-maniacal powers that control their countries without fear of reprecussions and knowing that the U.S. won't actually act on anything outside of our own borders. Another Clintion in office also equals let's destroy/reduce funding for the U.S. military to the point that we don't have the ability to defend ourselves or actually enforce policies we enact against foreign governments. Hilliary is using Bill as a stepping stone to try and become President of the U.S.A. A true, strong woman that was subjected to the immoral personal actions Bill did while in office would have walked away from him and dropped him like a bad habit. Explain to me how a person that had to move from Arkansas to New York to get elected into the U.S. Senate because of Watergate involvement is a respectable/legitmate candidate to lead a country. Let's bring up the socialism issue. Government regulated healthcare for all, at a "reasonable"cost. Probably a good thing. Taking money out of people's paycheck for refusing to buy into this "mandatory" system if it gets passed? Does it take stupidity, ignorance, or outright complancency to allow somoene with those beliefs to be the next potential P.O.T.U.S.?

Answer 3

Well, let's see, the GOP have a couple.

Bush trotted out gay-marriage again last week, after doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to keep his promise to try and ban gay marriage if re-elected in 2004.

And then, when Kerry misspoke, the GOP all feigned moral outrage, even though they know the official transcript that was passed out to reporters clearly indicated the joke was supposed to be about Bush, and didn't bash the troops at all.

On the Dems side, Mark Foley probably got a lot more play than it deserved.

Answer 4

The rule of thumb: if the issue affects redistribution of wealth in a material way, it is a real issue. If it does not, it's a red herring; unfortunately many red herrings are elevated in discourse because they carry with them the dogmatic votes of important power bases.

For example, same-sex marriage is really a red herring. Note that the Ds are fielding very conservative candidates (pro-life/against same-sex marriage) in contested districts; Democrats don't really care about this issue.

Answer 5

The clear false Issue is both parties are the same on most issues look at Iraq war both voted for it because the lobby man told both to vote yes for the war

Answer 6

My favorite is the "Bush suspended the Habeas Corpus."

EDIT: At least 2 states, Colorado and Tennessee, that I know of, have gay marriage bans on the ballot.

Answer 7

The biggest fake issue is that voting for a Democrat=voting against Bush.

It is big swings of voting that cause government fluctuations.

Who do you vote for, the guy that has held the job for four years or the guy that has been unemployed and complaining for four years?

Answer 8

Abortion, gay rights, terrorism, stem cell research, Democrats are socialists, fighting terrorists in Iraq and not here, being afraid of everything under the sun, etc, etc.

Answer 9

How is this distortion of the truth?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03cnd-documents.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1162616400&en=d6e60f288e881789&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin

Stop hiding in your hole, and dislike Bush for something credible, instead of Iraq,

Answer 10

Any candidates or propositions that don't heavily tax the rich. In other words, all of them.