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In reply to the discussion: "Once you get off of the social issues abortion, gay rights, guns and into the economic issues," [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)He's not saying to stop supporting the social issues or working on them. He's talking about focus.
I do think the Dem Party has neglected basic economic matters in recent years. For example, the Obama Admin. (which I thought highly of and vote for twice) didn't really address the loss of jobs due to the trade agreement(s) or outsourcing or offshoring. It didn't address the economic hardship that the ACA brought to the middle class. Yes, it did great things for millions. But it did create a hardship for many middle class, which wasn't even acknowledged, for the most part.
The Repubs are going to go after Social Security and Medicare big time. This is a high risk time for those programs, and for health care.
The tax plan is to shift the tax burden to as many middle class and poor as possible; the only way to get that passed w/o a deficit-killing budget is to take money from SS, Medicare, and the ACA. And they won't stop until they get it.
The Dem Party has done a great job furthering its social issues agenda. It's not unreasonable for it to shift its focus to the economic issues, now. But that does not mean giving up ground on the social issues or stopping support of them.