Its easier to get away with things if you let the avg person keep on living with out interfering with them.

For the majority of Americans there no direct effect on their day to day life. There secondary effects and indirect effects on all of us, but because they arnt physically harmful, directly viewable or caused by something with in the immediate region where they live.

People can and will just ignore them. Its been like that though of all of human history.

What does the present care for? Their food, water and warmth. What the king does many miles away does not concern the present in any way that matters.

So the present ignores it, till it’s too late.