Medicare for all and legal weed has been polling at above or around 70% for a few years now. What we want doesn’t translate into laws even with overwhelming support unless it also makes rich people richer. It’s no secret why people don’t trust their representative to represent them, because they don’t.
Yes, and if we give up our democracy, we lose any power we have to address the other issues.
This argument would carry more weight if people thought those we elect were interested in actually addressing those issues.
Medicare for all and legal weed has been polling at above or around 70% for a few years now. What we want doesn’t translate into laws even with overwhelming support unless it also makes rich people richer. It’s no secret why people don’t trust their representative to represent them, because they don’t.
Didn’t they put something in the constitution for that?