Not the only issue which matters, but the only issue being discussed...

Award winning sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card has written a profoundly good piece:

The Only Issue This Election Day
By Orson Scott Card

There is only one issue in this election that will matter five or ten years from now, and that's the War on Terror.

And the success of the War on Terror now teeters on the fulcrum of this election.

If control of the House passes into Democratic hands, there are enough withdraw-on-a-timetable Democrats in positions of prominence that it will not only seem to be a victory for our enemies, it will be one.

Unfortunately, the opposite is not the case -- if the Republican Party remains in control of both houses of Congress there is no guarantee that the outcome of the present war will be favorable for us or anyone else.

But at least there will be a chance.

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations.

Read the rest.

I agree with him that this is the only issue in this election -- being discussed -- that will matter in 10 years. However, this is not the only issue that *will* matter. Should we survive as a nation 10 years into the future, the National Debt will most certainly matter significantly.

In any event, read Card's piece.