Why are we allowing Politicians to run our lives?

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We are supposedly intelligent "adults" yet we elect into office legislators who busily enact laws that take away our rights and abilities to make our own decisions. Are we doing it to make our lives easier? What happens when we find out that it makes our lives worse? We're stuck with laws that make our lives miserable and all we can do is complain! We've turned so many of our responsibilities over to strangers....one of our responsibilities was to raise responsible children. All too often I've seen "adults" who are now too busy to make sure that their children are learning how to be caring, responsible, productive people. I work in an antique store and have seen it too often where the children are allowed to run loose to play with delicate items that are easy to break, and if they are broken the "adults" either don't see it happen, and if I bring the problem to them they say it wasn't their child. Or they quietly tell their child to put the broken item back on the shelf and scurry out the shop door. Or even worse, the child steals the item and the vendor is out the cost of the item, which is their bread and butter money. We have taken the road of least resistance about so much in our lives. Besides raising responsible children who grow up to not be on drugs and thieves, we let the legislators decide whether we can handle our medications ourselves, whether we can purchase cigarettes or alcohol, gamble or do so many other things. When do we take our lives back? I was talking to my boyfriend this morning about my pain meds. I had to be shorted 29 pills because the pharmacy didn't have enough to fill my prescription totally. It is getting to be the norm that people are being shorted just to satisfy a law that was put on the books to try to control a law put on the books during the Obama administration. We are now getting to the point of being treated like children when given our prescriptions. Some of us are being limited to seven days worth at a time with talk of it being limited to three days at a time. These are people that "WE" are electing into office to run our country, to make us "the greatest country on earth again". To control a massive drug problem that should have been controlled decades ago. The drug problem was created by people who couldn't look at life without the assistance of a fuzzy mind, of a feeling of false joy or euphoria. They weren't taught by their parents that that joy was created from within by being there to help their neighbors in need or others. They weren't taught the joy of giving to others, they weren't taught the joy of accepting others as they were. They were taught that they were to be the best, and if they weren't the best they were nothing. If they weren't the best they were nothing in their parent's eyes either. So they turned to drugs. Now, we are looking at not only a nation of people that have to be on drugs to be and feel something, but we feel that we have to be the greatest nation on earth. What is wrong with being equal to everyone else? What is wrong with helping others? What is wrong with taking our lives back from the legislators and getting them to stop "lawing" us to death? What's wrong with taking our lives back from the politicians? What's wrong with being adults and running our own lives again?