Originally Posted by
Breccia
The same way every other law worked state/federal. Those states with less, erm, "conservative" thinking applied their own rules until the federal government changed their mind.
Again, I'm not defending these policies, only pointing out that they were legal because they had popular support. Until they didn't. Then they weren't legal anymore.
You don't have to like either of those at-the-time legal situations. I'm glad you don't have to live in them. Hopefully the people with Republican Senators/Representatives who feel the minimum wage should increase will make their opinion known. If they feel other issues outweigh that, such as pro-life, they won't. That's why the minimum wage map and the who-voted-for-Biden map look so similar.
It's not ideal. It's not even "okay" from a moral standpoint. But I'm not going to charge the Capitol with torches and pitchforks, because that's not how democracy works. I'll just continue to chain-vote Democrat and attend rallies on the topic.
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Well yeah...that's how tautologies work.