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.
Most political issues.
Which political issues? I can't think of any other issue with majority popular support that doesn't have the support of one or both parties or at least significant factions of the parties. I don't think there are more than ten representatives in the House, meanwhile, who support marijuana legalization.
Yeah but marijuana doesn't have some lunatic visceral reactive block of partisans that swears up and down legalizing it is "tyranny" and the next step is the government sending black helicopters to rape your wife.
I mean barely a majority support marijuana legalization and the opposition in DC is more akin to disinterested foot dragging. I mean why is something that only polls 55% meet with universal but exceedingly mild indifferent neglect and then something that 90% of the countries actually believes in met with visceral convulsions. When the Holder justice department came out and said we aren't going to be kicking in doors in Colorado and Washington just to bust people for small amounts of pot I didn't see any right wing lunatic campaign ads.
When someones said maybe we should at least do the same level of scrutiny we do for a 16 year old getting a drivers license when we are handing out 50 Caliber sniper rifles the right wing lost their collective minds.
