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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]Caliman73
(11,740 posts)You can focus on both. Conservatives use social issues as a wedge and that is their problem. Democrats need to focus on both. Social issues and economic issues are inseparable. Sanders needs to blend his message not talk about being "hung up" on anything. It is the wrong message.
Most jobs have been lost to technology not necessarily to outsourcing. The larger loss to outsourcing is capital, meaning tax revenue. The problem with trade agreements is not that they take jobs overseas. Those jobs would have gone overseas anyway. The problem is that the Republicans failed to keep up their end of the bargain with vocational training and shifting the focus to new jobs. They also keep moving the goalposts on infrastructure.
Sanders sounds tone deaf on the "social issues". He can walk and chew gum at the same time. He isn't going to get the white Trump voter back. They don't want women and Black people to get any kind of help to even up the playing field.