What Are Our Top Five Issues for 2018 Election?

What are your top five issues for the 2018 Elections, from City Hall to the State Capitol to Washington, D.C.?  Thanks to Mark for asking me to ask you.  (This is a draft, a work in progress).

Here are my top fivc issues for America, Florida, St. Johns County, St. Augustine and St. Augustine Beach:

1.   MORE TRANSPARENCY AND EXPOSING CORRUPTION AND ORGANIZED CRIME.  Devious developers demolition derby must stop. Foreign-funded criminals fund Limited Liability Companies.  We have a Right to Know who they are -- they're asking us for government favors.  Support a Countywide Inspector General, Ombuds, Ethics Commission and County Charter.  Support restoration of the Department of Community Affairs and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection -- under Governor RICHARD LYNN SCOTT, DEP stands for "Don't Expect Protection."

2.  ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL OCEAN LEVEL RISE. Our way of life is threatened by climate change, global ocean level rise and greedy carboniferous corporations.  We must promote energy conservation, solar energy, wind energy and an end to the carbon-based economy. Support the St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore.  Support restoration of the Florida Department of Community Affairs and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection -- under Governor RICHARD LYNN SCOTT, DEP stands for "Don't Expect Protection."

3.  LIBERTY.  Your fundamental freedoms are under attack by the formidable forces of regimentation and fascism.  Support candidates who support your human, civil and constitutional rights.  Question them about their understanding of liberty --- all of it.

4.  EQUALITY.  Support candidates who support free democratic trade unions, progressive tax policies and who oppose giveaways for millionaires and billionaires.

5. EDUCATION.   Support candidates who understand the need for teaching critical thinking skills and public schools that liberate the mind, not chain it up in propagandistic charter schools, which teach dupey dopey dogma, not democracy. . We only advance when everyone has a right to a free public education, with college a right and not a privilege for the wealthy few.