These are the laws the people in that jurisdiction voted for.
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Yes, I agree with every point you’ve made in this post. Well, almost. The people of course don’t vote for the laws they vote for the lawmakers. And the problem is that many lawmakers, regardless of party affiliation, cannot be relied upon to enact ONLY laws that actually need to be enacted. As a result we have countless laws on the books that are needlessly repressive. And the further we drift away from the kind of government envisioned by our Founders by the enactment of such laws the more repressive our society becomes. Henry David Thoreau, in “Civil Disobedience,” (1849), was spot on: “That government is best which governs least” We’re about to observe more clear evidence of that over the next four years.
There are consequences for voting Democrat.