does your hot button issue change every week or month

[MaC]

Let me clarify.  Hot button can have different meanings.  Hot button can mean the issue that you feel the strongest about or the issue you feel that interests you and/or you feel passionate about the most.

The issue I feel strongest about- against gun control, never changes
The issue that I feel is most interesting and I can feel passionately about- right now I'm very anti-regulation, changes about every week, two weeks...

[Gabu]

I don't really have any hot button issues, so I don't know how to answer.

[MaC]

do you even have opinions concerning politics Gabu?  It seems to me that you really don't have too many stances, you just more or less put extreme posters in their place.  Granted this helps some understand their faulty logic, but I don't know why you'd even bother with a site like this if you had no strong positions.

[A18]

My hot button issue remains tax reform. Once the tax code has been overhauled, it'll probably be ownership.

[Gabu]

do you even have opinions concerning politics Gabu?  It seems to me that you really don't have too many stances, you just more or less put extreme posters in their place.  Granted this helps some understand their faulty logic, but I don't know why you'd even bother with a site like this if you had no strong positions.

I have positions; I just don't have any that I'm wildly vocal about.  Just yesterday I was arguing with EarlAW over whether or not the voting age should be abolished.  I've had tons of scuffles over stuff like abortion and gay marriage.  I argue less over economic matters, mainly because most of them are a lot more complicated than most would like to admit, but if you really wanted me to debate over those issues, I'm sure I could do it.

I don't have as well-defined stances on economic issues, though, because those generally require (for me, at least) thorough research into the issue, and I simply don't have time to thoroughly research every single economic issue under the sun in order to form a stance on the issue.  I don't like to just go with my gut feeling on economic issues because there are a lot of counterintuitive things in that area, and I know very well that I wouldn't have a clue what I was talking about.

[Giant Saguaro]

Yeah, I'm very much against gun control, that doesn't change, but on 'hot button issues' and what I think about them sometimes intensifies or changes based on what I read or based on what some activist court might do somewhere in regard to them. I think this is quite common because if you think about it, states didn't start with gay marriage bans until it became an issue, although they had still been against gay marriage. 'Under God' in the Pledge has mostly gone away as an issue like before the 9th Circuit Court banned it, but in 2002 people were carrying on about it like crazy.

[AkSaber]

Yeah, I'm very much against gun control, that doesn't change, but on 'hot button issues' and what I think about them sometimes intensifies or changes based on what I read or based on what some activist court might do somewhere in regard to them. I think this is quite common because if you think about it, states didn't start with gay marriage bans until it became an issue, although they had still been against gay marriage. 'Under God' in the Pledge has mostly gone away as an issue like before the 9th Circuit Court banned it, but in 2002 people were carrying on about it like crazy.

Yeah, same here. Abortion and gun control, I will always be against those. But my attention changes to what I'm interested in. I think about gun control most often, but I also think about economic stuff too. Like the federal deficit, taxes, spending, and excessive government regulation.

[Everett]

I have no real hot button issues anymore, so no.

[Jake]

My biggest issue is abortion and my most interesting issue is abortion. Both haven't changed since sometime last summer, so No/No.