CNN: 55% favor marijuana legalization

[IceSpear]

Is there any other issue where there's such a dramatic disconnect between politicians and regular people? A majority of the country supports legalizing marijuana; I doubt more than ten or twenty Congresspeople do.

Universal background checks
Raising taxes on millionaires/billionaires
Increasing minimum wage
Not cutting Medicare/Social Security

[IceSpear]

Is there any other issue where there's such a dramatic disconnect between politicians and regular people? A majority of the country supports legalizing marijuana; I doubt more than ten or twenty Congresspeople do.

Universal background checks
Raising taxes on millionaires/billionaires
Increasing minimum wage
Not cutting Medicare/Social Security

You guys really missed Lief's point pretty hard. He wasn't saying "what other issue is there popular support on but gets nowhere?" he was saying "what other issue does there exist this much support in contrast to so little supporters in congress?" which is correct, I can't think of one.

There exists a lot of support in congress for increasing the minimum wage, for background checks, for raising taxes, even gay marriage (does have majority support in the Senate), etc, just not enough to get them passed. In contrast, there's basically, what, less than a dozen people in congress who would support legalizing pot? There's majority support for that at this point in the public, but basically nothing in congress. That is unlike any other issue I can think of.

Not cutting Medicare/SS still qualifies though. Very few pols will rule it out. Even the few that do rule it out would probably cave after pressure from leadership.