The N.R.A. Wins Again - TheNewYorker

[DanTex]

33. In other words, no evidence. No surprise there. Maybe the next pro-gunner will come up with some.

So evidently you think Dems should only go for progressive issues if at least 70% of the country agrees with them. If it's 60% or less, let's just hand it over to the GOP. Is that it?

You continually ignore the fact that guns are no different from a bunch of other issues, where the majority of the population (and yes, 55% to 60% is a majority) agrees with the Democrats, but the special interest politics favor the Republicans. You're acting like guns are somehow different, but actually, the same people are voting for anti-union measures and pro-life measures and so on.

The majority of the American people do not want chained CPI, nor do they want to raise the retirement age. It's not an overwhelming majority, but a significant one, just like the AWB. And yet, it is looking like both of those are going to happen anyway. When that happens, and I again say that Democrats who caved to special interest politics should be primaried, are you going to again stick up for the right-wing Dems who are voting with the 40% of America that wants right-wing policies, and the Koch Brothers who are funding them?