If you are a law-abiding and responsible person who doesn't have any debt, you might totally lose respect for the government and laws if you get fined $30,000 for having an illegal flagpole.
@RichardKuklinskisIcyGlare@Dagnar@freepatriotInteresting: I think there was a very great deal of low-level cognitive dissonance back then, which was really easy to drown out with material comforts as long as it wasn’t taken too seriously.