Well keep in mind in the 70’s your parents were just kids in elementary, high-school, or just starting college. I am a boomer myself and while we were growing up in the old United States, there was very little at the time we could personally do...we were kids. My ability to vote the first time was for Reagan, maybe your parents it was Carter? But in the 70’s we were just kids.
It is my parents and grandparents who were the adults at the time that saw all this starting. Reagan warned us and warned us. We listened to talkers like Limbaugh who told us he would signal when to fight back...he never did. Now, now he’s passing away and so is our country. Millions waited, took the high-road of morality never realizing that we were on the wrong moral road. It is the very road to death, loss of liberty, and we’ve paved the way for the lawless one.
I came around in 75, they were old enough. Even the 80s it was obvious too.
Everyone was too busy being good families, working and living that they thought a lot of things would just pass by. A lot of people also thought things were just a fad.
This is also why it’s so important to study history in school. Then people can recognize when things are going in an evil direction.