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In reply to the discussion: I'm very sorry Hillary Clinton has a sad today. [View all]Bugenhagen
(151 posts)Those are some of the hugest issues of our day. I am totally in favor of election reform, getting money out of politics, women having sole authority over their own bodies, equal rights for all... you name it. If we met, I don't believe you'd think I was a republican of any stripe. Seriously, there aren't many democrats that I know of who come down on the wrong side of issues like civil rights and reproductive rights. If that was all we had to worry about, Hillary would be golden with me.
What makes an issue a wedge issue isn't moral rightness or wrongness (my working definition of repub vs democrat). A wedge issue is one that defines the sides in an election. Wedge issues fuel voter excitement and donations. In America the election will be fought over wedge issues at the expense of other huge issues like Wall Street reform, taking on the MIC, TPP and other trade issues and so forth. Those are also huge issues that won't get discussed in any meaningful way during any debate or interview or what have you.
In my opinion (and here we probably disagree) big money wins either way if Hillary wins or a republican wins.
What we need is a candidate who is not only going to be on the right/ethical/moral/human side of what I called wedge issues, but one who is on the right side of the other big issues such as big money and foreign policy and so forth.