How many of the 67% who support a minimum wage increase

[edhopper]

or the 72% who support the COVID relief bill and yet voted for a GOP Rep or Senator understand that they are the reason these things are having trouble passing?

[Pantagruel]

1. Civics 101

I think they stopped teaching it 40 years back.

[FuzzyRabbit]

2. Are you saying that

election results are somehow linked to legislation? Who would have guessed!

[edhopper]

3. I wish more voters would see that

[Blasphemer]

4. Maybe a better question is to ask how they feel about a minimum wage increase relative...

to the other issues they base their vote on. For example, there are "abortion only" conservative voters who would vote for a GOP candidate despite their opposition to increasing the minimum wage solely because of their abortion stand. That was really the entire point of making these types of issues wedge issues.

[PSPS]

5. We're a minority-ruled country

Gerrymandered House districts + filibuster in Senate = rule by the minority.

[JI7]

6. They hate minorities and women more than they want those things

[Sympthsical]

7. You assume that 67% is evenly distributed across states

When 11 million Californians vote Democratic, but 193,000 people in Wyoming vote Republican (looking at 2020 results), they get the same amount of senators. Those people in Wyoming do not have their interests aligned with 5700% more people. Yet the Senate's power is proportioned that way.

So when you say, "Two thirds of Americans want this," that is true. But where are those two-thirds of Americans living? If the overwhelming majority of them live in highly populated blue states (and they do), they just don't have as much power in a non-representational body like the Senate.

It sucks, but that's our system. Those senators are not necessarily going against their own constituents.

Now, if you said 2/3 of Wyoming voters want a minimum wage increase, and they voted for two Republican senators voting against it, the argument works a lot better.

[edhopper]

9. Biden got about 52% of the vote

that means a lot of Trump voters approve of this. And States like Florida, that went for Trump, approved a $15 mw by over 60%.

It is more popular in Red States than you think.

[MichMan]

8. They need to pressure their state legislatures to pass min wage increases

That way it doesn't matter what the Federal government does