A shout out to "social issues"

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69. True, but Warren isn't running

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though you have a point about Chaffee. He along with Warren was a supporter of Reaganomics in the 80s. Clinton certainly has never been a supporter of supply side, or trickle down, economics. If you've confused capitalism with Reaganomics, you should do something to remedy that.

Your comment about the "poor remaining poor" shows no understanding of my post. No one who believes government should play a role in addressing poverty votes Republican. People who care only about themselves and those of their relatively privileged economic circumstances may well do so or act in ways that allow the GOP to come to office.

I made clear that what some around here dismiss as social issues are in fact economic, only they affect the lives of those of us who don't matter, the majority of Americans. Some here are focused entirely on their anger at Wall Street because, I'm guessing, they lost out badly in the economic collapse. I imagine it's very frustrating, but they are not the only people who count. I have never seen a single post criticizing the Democratic field raise the issue of poverty. Not one. What I have seen is vapid references to "corporatism," who associates with whom, and other trivia that has nothing to do with the lives of anyone outside the political elite. If there is any economic interest discussed it is of a narrow portion of a relatively privileged segment of the population and certainly not the poor. What is clear is that certain people assume their own interests are either universal or more important than everyone else's and thus dismiss the concerns of the majority of Americans as "social issues." The majority of the poor are women and people of color; equal rights affect their ability to feed their families. It is obvious to me that people who say that the two parties are the same on the issues that really matter are not including the poor among those issues that "matter." The attitude is one of privilege, on the part of people with relative privilege and dismissive of the majority who are not nearly so fortunate.