Economic issues vs. social issues

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Which is more important to you and more instrumental in how you vote?

[whistle]

1. What, no "moral values" option? Shame on you....

[UL_Approved]

2. Representation

Representation is key in my decision process. The fact is, we have sunk so low in our nation that the Bill of Rights is literally being thrown out of the window. I opt for a candidate who can actually work for the people he/she is supposed to represent. Anything else is just bullshit rhetoric, talking points, and a Pavlovian trigger for uneducated voters.

[Squeech]

3. There's a difference?

To me, economic issues are notions like how much autonomy corporations have to privilege managers and stockholders over workers, consumers and the community and/or environment. But then, that becomes a social issue too.

Taxes are usually considered an economic issue. But raising taxes to, for instance, build a school system that actually educates children makes it a social issue.

The biggest difference between Democrats and Republicans, I think, is that Democrats want the benefits of society to be distributed among everybody, whereas Republicans think the people that already run things should keep all the profits. They phrase it in economic terms, but it's really a social conception: class stratification vs. equality of opportunity.