The problem here is that the people who are now in the positions of Governing powers have an askwed perception of how people should be living and the even more distorted perception that they THE authority on how you should live and that everyone is obliged to comply. This is true when there was a set of simple laws to live by, however the Governing powers are delving deeper and deeper into the realm of micro-managing your life. They aren't satisfied with you following the basic laws, now they even want to dictate your every action. Many of them try to envision themselves to be like our forefathers. However, if any of them would have actually considered anything our forefathers said, they would have taken to heart Thomas Jefferson's statement, "..the Government is best which governs least". Reality shows us that they are doing the opposite though, to the point where they are deciding what you can or cannot put in your body, what you can or cannot think, who you can or cannot communicate with, what you can or cannot read, when you can be outside or when you can't be outside. Were China in U.S. skin.
