Are social issues really more important than economic/security issues?

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No, economic issues are far more important, but social issues can get me riled up enough to vote Republican if the scenario permits thanks to a Democratic candidate who is effectively intolerable.

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A gay person hears chatter about laws that will permit businesses to discriminate against her and has to struggle with the idea that her quality of life is actually on the line.

What about those who honestly would prefer for that to be OK? As one in the South, the supposed bastion of bigotry, I would rather not be served by someone who disagrees enough with me to not want me and my money. Those in other regions are at lower risk of being discriminated against, or so I have often been told. Yet the typical non-Southern gay seems a lot more concerned about discrimination than I should be, as I am also mixed-race. Quite frankly, I think most people far overestimate the number of people who would discriminate, or the left does at least.

Of course they do because they literally believe more than 50% of the country is pure evil for not thinking from their mindset.