Don't really know how to shoot this one... I grew up in a time when buckling your seat belt was an option, paying a traffic fine didn't require a whole paycheck, and a urinalysis was consider an invasion of privacy.
Seat belts are an interesting consideration insofar as they are industry versus consumer; increasing traffic fines are a result of tough-on-crime policies that have, by and large, resulted in general legal, administrative, and human disaster; urinalysis is a combination of factors, including both the above, and the Southern Strategy.
As a political matter, there is much to be said about "both parties"; that is to say, Democrats buckled and took part.
As a political matter, there is much to be said about voters; that is to say, it's what voters said they wanted at the time insofar as it's what won elections.
As a political matter, there is much to be said about information availability, filtering, and commercial or industrial priorities; that is to say, whether Alex Jones, CNN, or a revolutionary leftist newspaper, everybody has their editorial priorities, though much like I feel the so-called "liberals" felt compelled to compromise with more conservative demands in this or that issue, I would also note that the Spartacist League just doesn't have any influence in the American political discourse, so there comes a point in the Tea Party and now alt-Right period at which it is very difficult to assert equivalence. Nonetheless, these are the market outcomes.
As to the other part―
How much personal power are you willing to hand over to authority? Better yet, how much power over others are you willing to hand over to authority? The question of government and its role in our lives, what limits should there be?
―it's harder to sketch. I remember an occasion we were flying from FAT to SFO in a Brasilia EMB 130, and as we came in to San Francisco I could look out the window and we were crab-crawling our way in, pointed a ridiculous angle―in excess of fifteen degrees―off our vector. Then the shear hit. The plane dropped a couple hundred feet instantly. My brother was sitting directly in front of me; had fallen asleep without his seat belt buckled. I watched him slide up the fuselage form factor and then back down into his seat, utterly surprised and doing the hilarious sputtering what-what-what-just-happened bit. To the one, I'll call it lucky because it was fucking brilliant. To the other, he was asleep when the little bell dinged and nobody was paying attention to their neighbors. It's not like he felt the rule about buckling his seat belt when the little sign told him to was some manner of oppression.
My point being that over the years it's astounding what I've heard people describe in terms that make your question rather quite interesting. You're aware, for instance, of some of my theses about
"supremacism as equality"; those do arise from having witnessed other people offer up some pretty strange assertions of liberty and equality that have much to do with the question of handing personal power over to authority.