The last 10 years had made something abundantly clear. Nations function based on people respecting the same norms. As all a law really is, is a written out norm with an enforcement behind it when not followed. A law by itself doesn’t do anything. It’s that people are willing to follow the law. Along with that the relative few that do not are dealt with after the fact.
We’ve had a group steadily advocating that norms mean nothing. For that matter, that most laws mean nothing to them. Combined with what feels like an excruciatingly slow enforcement of the laws being ignored. Combined with a media that sanitizes this and acts as if it is all normal.
If this was a highway, and 30% of the cars on the road just ignored all the rules, drove any direction at any speed in any lane, the highway would cease to function. Nothing about highway laws forces this not to happen. It’s the cultural norm that people follow those rules and the few that do not are discouraged after the fact.
If we extend out this trajectory and all norms and rules become useless. We’ll up in a giant pile of catastrophe. That seems to be the plan of an entire political party.
