I looked at the population of New Jersey a bit ago and there are 9+ million people there. Then I did a comparison of square miles and it is was less than 10% the size of Minnesota. Lots of people crammed into a small area means you have to have controls in place to maintain order.
Your unbelievable stupidity never ceases to amaze me.
I think Teacher is right. Not that controls on the people are right or that they are just. But I do believe that if you put too many people too close together, they feel the need to control each other. A neighbor that lives 1/2 mile away can do whatever they want and it doesn't bother you. Put that neighbor so close that your houses are almost touching and everything he does now impacts your life - so you want him controlled by somebody.
There is a band of urban blight in NJ that runs from the NE corner of the state and runs through Newark, Trenton, and ends at Camden right across the river from Philly. This is where the majority of the population lives and it's a dump. Everything on either side of this band of problems is pretty nice. Nobody realizes that most of NJ is rural. I grew up on a farm and live around the corner from where I grew up. My nearest neighbor is 1/4 mile away. If you were dropped here, you would guess you were in Alabama or Missouri, not NJ.
But, the population centers have more voters and get to make the laws that the rest of us have to follow.
