From abortion to direct taxation to child protective services; isn't that what a Progressive, Command and control government does though? I know someone who was in charge of the formulation lab at a major contract research organization in the days before Obama.
He's a substitute science teacher now.
The waitress or sheetrocker that looses everything because of the smog regs may have been put in that position by our benevolent government.
When one sees it from decade to decade, it can be so hard to live through.