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In reply to the discussion: A shout out to "social issues" [View all]qwlauren35
(6,148 posts)There people in America who do not want to ensure abortion rights or marriage equality. And no amount of money is going to fix that. That's why abortion rights are so important to me. I've had abortions. I did not struggle to pay for them. Most women who want/need abortions find the money, somehow. It's ACCESS.
So, economic issues are very, very important. But I just don't see all of them as linked to the social issues that are most important to me.
And what I see in DU is that economic issues are more important than the social issues *that are most important to me*.
I accept that social issues are what the Republicans call "special interests". Not every Democrat is going to fight for every "social issue".
What pains me is that Republican conservatives are willing to unite around social issues, and put them at the top of the campaign agenda, and pull out voters who vote against their economic interests. And I don't think Democrats know how to fight this. Obama got lucky in a way because a tanked economy trumped a black president. But America isn't hurting the way it was in 2008. So, if Republicans pull out the "social issues" and Democrats keep talking about the economic issues, I see a Republican president in our future.