Well ok I agree with you there.
But either fiscal issue are important or they are not.
I say they are because this country is about to collapse ... others may not be worried about that or they may welcome it for all I know.
I agree that it is hard to campaign on the REAL financial issues. They don’t lend themselve to soundbytes ... which is why we always fall back on the very soundbytable social issues.
Yes fiscal issues are fundamentally important, and so are issues that go the foundations of freedom established and expressed in the Declaration Of Independence.
Some people say that politics is an expression of economic relationship and realities.
I believe that this is true.
However, philosophical ideas and political philosophy are equally important.
The relationship is that the state engine is economics, and the state dynamic direction is philosophically framed. JMHO