Does Social Issues matter when deciding your political affiliation?

[TaraJo]

I can agree with that; I just wish we treated economic issues like social issues.  After all, there are a lot of straight, cis, Christian men who are in much worse living situations than Caitlyn Jenner, Ben Carson or Milo Yiannopoulos.  Money matters and a minority with a lot of money is going to be in a better position than a non-minority who's broke.

But isn’t poverty also a social issue?

That's what I'm saying.  But we endlessly talk about how difficult it is for black people.  Or gay people.  Or trans people.  Or women.  And while I agree that society is unfair to all those groups, I don't seem the same attention paid to poverty.  Truth be told, the most difficult thing for me to do hasn't been to transition, it's been to get out of homelessness (admittedly, being trans made that even more difficult).  So much of society, so many of our laws, so much just makes things difficult for poor people, especially homeless people, that it's a hole that's really hard to overcome.

Here's a fact: I can't rely on mass transit in my city.  If you're going to get a job here, you either need a car or you need to be able to walk to and from work and most of the jobs that allow you to overcome poverty aren't anywhere close to inexpensive living situations.  Which means if you don't have a reliable car, you can't get a job that will get you out of poverty.  It's worse if you're homeless where shelters have so many rules and regulations that it can be difficult, if not impossible, to get and hold a job while in a shelter.  If you can't stay in a shelter, well, good luck because that's the group cities hate the most.  It can be difficult to keep any kind of personal possession if you have to live in a tent city.  And how are you going to apply for a job if you don't have an address, clean clothes in good condition, a phone or access to the internet?  

And while all that is going on, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and David Koch are all making good money off governmental policies that benefit them and tax policies that they can take advantage of.  But elected officials never attempt to change this.  And it's a problem.