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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They might feel more dangerous but are they factually more dangerous? I don't know the answers to each situation but I'd try to look for the facts to support or discredit the feelings.
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Great point yeah; it's possible that it's actually not that dangerous to break the left-leaning laws, but anecdotally it feels like it's more. Like when I got into sex work my escort friend was like "I break the law to do sex work but I don't dare try to avoid paying taxes"
Wait, are you saying illegal sex workers and drug dealers pay taxes from the income they make on their criminalized business? Because if not, doesn’t the whole premise fall apart?
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Also, how many laws in place are 100% in place by just one party? It's only been recent history (30-40 years) where the breakdown in partisanship has been this extraordinary. There has traditionally been some support from both sides up until around Reagan/Bush.
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