As I’ve aged, I’ve put away childish beliefs. One of them was that ANY government is benign. Thing is, every single “powerful” government ever to come into existence was championed by powerful people. You don’t get there by pussyfooting around.
Now, you may have the interests of the people at heart, but you have a plan, and if any of them start doing things that contradict the goals of your plan, well, they are the enemy. And you got where you did by dealing with your enemy better than they dealt with you.
There is a reason the streets in downtown Seattle are not a nice clean grid. It has to do with power struggles. As long as what you are doing is not impacting “their” plans, you can go forward, uninhindered. But when you, or enough of you, do something that will have a tangible impact, you will get pushback. Constitutional or otherwise.
It is literally how the world has worked since Adam and Ever stepped out of the garden, and the way it will work until Christ returns. The “nice” government, wherever it may sprout, is a facade.
ever = Eve
Sorry I'm not following that. Elaborate please.