When the left punishes you, it's social ostracism, which can be brutal in its own right. But.
When the right punishes you, it's your time they take away, not your opportunities. Labor prisons, monopolies you're stuck paying for, lower quality larger profit less oversight (for the loyal, the disloyal are taken for helicopter rides or foreign treatment.
At least with a loss of opportunities, you still have your life and other guaranteed freedoms to find a different opportunity.