Does anyone bother to ask why the government has so much control over every day activities? This puts so much power into the hands of politicians, and is so divisive. The abuse of such power to control, for example, housing, becomes irresistible. The temptation to think that these problems can somehow be made better by adding more government gets stronger and stronger. Each failure leads to more calls for more government.
The irony is that most of the youngsters so anxious to snatch power away from the old will one day become old, and learn the hard way just why the old act as they do.