Columnist: Although most people favor the bill and the bill does not violate anyone' s basic human rights, it will not be passed for many years, if at all; nor will any similar bill  Those people who would be adversely affected were it to become law are very influential
This shows that, if this country is a democracy at all, it is not a well-functioning one
In a well-functioning democracy, a bill that is favored by most people will become law within a few years only if those who oppose it are not very influential.