The loss of freedoms in the USA (and elsewhere within the "free world") is frightening. The approach (and some say it has already arrived) of true oppression may well be on hand.
Look at your life and think about what laws you would be breaking today if you acted as you had in the seventies. Whether you agree with the reasoning or the reasons, the loss to choose for yourself... even regarding things that hold no threat or harm to others, is appalling.