Does Social Issues matter when deciding your political affiliation?

[ToTheMoon]

I think it's a balance. I've been a libertarian, which you could describe as liberal on social issues and conservative (pre-Trump) on economic matters, but I've noticed that libertarians tend to vote Republican unless they're members of the Libertarian Party. I became a Democrat when the GQP lost their collective minds, but I had been drifting that way for a while as I let go of some of the more unrealistic libertarian economic ideas.

If you're all one way on social issues and all the other way on economic issues, it comes down to which is more important to you, or it could be like a Chinese menu, whether you have more items in the Democrat column or the Republican one.

When you get down to it, it's like both parties got together and decided to throw darts to decide which individual rights they're going to violate.

Democrats don't respect property rights enough.
Republicans don't respect your right to choose a non-traditional non-monogamous lifestyle. I don't have a problem promoting traditional family values, I have a problem with forcing people to live by them.

Sometimes this overlaps, like you can have a Democrat that's also extremely socially conservative or a radfem (socially liberal for women, socially conservative for men). And Republicans aren't that pro-property rights either, I'll believe they are consistent when they start to formulate a step-by-step plan of how they are going to abolish / phase out social security.


I think Republican is the lesser evil overall, especially now with the Democratic losing its mind embracing the woke into their ranks, but if you want to stand on principle boycott both. Vote third party or stay home.

My country is even worse, there's no libertarian choice so I just troll the elections by voting for the least popular party in the polls. All mainstream parties are garbage, just a choice between different types of socialist parties (with extra corruption to boot).