How firmly do you believe that most political questions have clear right and wrong answers?

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10. Too many political questions are horrifyingly unrelated to reality.

It's all bread and circuses while the world burns.

I don't see anyone talking about banning fossil fuels. The only political question is how hard we should press down on the accelerator as we race down the road to hell. Is global warming real? Yes. Will more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere change the earth's climate in very unfavorable ways? Yes.

We even argue about physical realities like evolution.



Furthermore, too many political questions are unrelated to actual human rights issues.

The answers to these human rights questions are crystal clear, yet there remains factions that seek to cloud the issues for irrational reasons of selfishness, racism, misogyny, religion, etc.

Examples would be issues like the death penalty. Yes, innocent people are frequently executed when there is a death penalty.

Another example would be the right of homosexual couples to enjoy the same privileges of marriage heterosexual couples do. Yes, this is an obvious human right. What's the "political question?"

Here in the U.S.A. we still argue about social programs and regulations that are long proven effective in other nations; issues like universal medical care, welfare, and living wages. But we act as if there is still something to argue about, as if their are "two sides" to issues that are not two sided at all.