From article on gun control. If a "substantial" number support it but 78% think it will do nothing why would that substantial number bother supporting it? Or is this just describing how dems think?
"........and many Americans are deeply pessimistic that anything will soon change. When President Joe Biden signed a bill last year to fight gun violence — the first such measure to pass Congress in a generation — a substantial majority supported it. But 78% said they believed it would do little or nothing at all, a survey by the Pew Research Center found"