That's the thing; the PARTIES support it, but the people in those parties won't be affected by this. This is the problem with democracy; it's the people's representatives making the decisions, not the people. And said representatives have stopped being representative a long time ago, most of them being born and growing up priviledged (think rich, private education) and career politicians, instead of e.g. a blue collar worker being given decision power for a while, or a true democratic system where people can (or, have to) vote on issues.

I mean the latter isn't ideal but it feels more fair and democratic.

Indeed, this is the major problem. Worse dictatures are like example of what can be done but also, setting a floor so extreme in the worse that some people can use that to say that even if they restrict the civil rights, there is worse and we are so far from the dictatures measures that it is still ok and acceptable.