Strategically speaking, when you're facing down people who hate you and want to see you removed from power, it's a "great" idea to take away their livelihoods and their families. You really want to put your enemies in a position where they have nothing left to lose, right?
I would be hard pressed to think up a situation more conducive to the break up of civil society than to bifurcate society by government decree.
That is how you get the bugaloo.
Strategically speaking, when you're facing down people who hate you and want to see you removed from power, it's a "great" idea to take away their livelihoods and their families. You really want to put your enemies in a position where they have nothing left to lose, right?