Martin Luther King fought equally hard for civil rights and economic equality.

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68. I've got a probably dumb question about this social/economic thing...

Sorry I've chosen you to land them on after reading a few threads, but if anyone else wants to jump in with some answers as well that'd be good.

I don't get this dividing up of issues based on whether they're economic or social. Aren't there a whole lot of really important issues that are both? I'll use the universal healthcare system here and pretend for a moment that introducing a similar system in the US is an election issue. I'd see that one as both social and economic because it helps the poor, the indigenous population and women, to name a few minority groups. And it's also an economic issue as paying for that system comes out of income taxes. Not to mention the whole preventative aspect of that system that's not happening in the US. Foreign policy's another issue entirely in that it doesn't fall under either umbrella...

While I try to stay out of the threads at DU that goes on about the Primary thing, I do have some opinions. One is that it's a weird system where the candidate who raises the most billion$ to campaign with is seen as a winner. I mean, imagine what those billions could do to make society a better place. Fix a few dodgy bits of infrastructure, raise the minimum wage to something slightly higher than a pittance, subsidise medications etc.

The other opinion is that there's a big hoo haa being made at DU about social and economic issues. If I didn't know any better I'd think that there's a democratic candidate who's not an advocate of social issues that are important to people on the Left. I'm pretty sure that both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are very strong on social issues. So I don't get what all the fuss is about.