What do you expect from an electorate that has compromised their moral values in a misguided sense of freedom.
Freedom is the right to do wrong with the limit at the next person’s nose.
When other people define right and get the power to enforce it, even for the best of intentions, tyranny inevitably ensues as the definition of right tightens and tightens.
We were in pretty good shape freedom-wise in 1865-1877.