Maybe one of the reasons I feel less threatened by the right than the left is that it feels like it's much easier to violate the bad laws implemented by the right than it is the bad laws implemented by the left
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My friends were doin drugs like weed and psychedelics even when they were illegal. You can at least manage to do abortions even when illegal, you can still have romantic relationships with the same gender (tho you can't get married), you can do sex work under the radar. BUT
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Want to run a business without a license? Want to not pay taxes? Want to hire employees without bundling their healthcare in to it too? These things all feel much more dangerous, they leave paper trails, and way more points of weakness for other people noticing and reporting you
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Running a business w/o a license? well, i can understand that but, not wanting to pay taxes? not bundling workers healthcare? how could it be a problem that people can't do that?
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If the right wants to ban you using drugs, you can still do drugs; if the left wants to raise taxes, you... have to pay taxes. Regardless if you agree/disagree with each move, the point is that one is harder to violate than the other.
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Also bundling healthcare with employment means that employers have *way* too much power over employees. It seems bad that you can lose access to healthcare if you're fired, like wtf? They should be totally separate.
Wouldn't the whole "medicare for all" approach solve that problem? Having these linked and increasing dependency on your employer seems more like a right wing approach to the whole thing?
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Thinking that compulsory employer funded health care is the *left*wing option is the most American thing I've ever seen.
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