Does this sound familiar to what’s happening today?
They claimed government was about to take away all their freedoms…all due to mandatory seat belt use.
From news clips from the early 1980’s.In the early 1980s, the public-safety battle was over seat belts. Most Americans didn’t use them, and 65% opposed them being enforced by law.
“There was a libertarian streak among resistors,” car-safety pioneer Ralph Nader told Business Insider. “They took the stance that ‘you’re not going to tie the American people up in seat belts.'”