We have an executive branch picking and choosing which laws it will enforce, which laws it won't, which ones it will defend in court, which ones it won't. In other words, the body of law does not determine what is allowed and disallowed, but rather individual personalities -- most of whom are unelected bureaucrats.
On top of that already intolerable state of affairs, the same bunch are aggressively quashing lower levels of government when they attempt to pick up the slack out of sheer and desperate necessity.
They deserve every bit of what they're going to get some day.