Very true. It typically takes some kind of life altering event to change peoples’ minds and attitudes owning to things like wars, economic deprivation, contagion, famine, etc. Very serious problems are festering but we are too comfortable and distracted to bother demanding that they be addressed. Most people simply don’t care.
Its difficult to imagine what it may take to alarm such a passive populace.
Sadly, most Americans are either too happy in their ignorance of issues caused by our own government or just don’t have enough empathy to act just because someone else is getting screwed by our own government.
The facts and consequences have to slap most Americans directly in the face like a Muhammed Ali “phantom punch” before they will react. The only good thing is that when most, regular Americans finally feel that punch they DO react.
When the truth about Texas School Boards and the LGBTQ+ indoctrination that was being pushed in so many districts hit home and was exposed, many Texas School Boards were upended by complete turn overs of every seat available to a more conservative set of members. The reaction was swift, just, and thorough...but it took people in each district finally realizing that teachers and schools do not always have the best interest of the children at heart...they say they do, but their actions show otherwise.