Comment by Frost1x

It's not that something impacts people in a negative way, time and causual linking are paramount. Like slow cooking a frog, if the rate of change (e.g., decline) is slow or even delayed enough, most people won't connect the two events of cause and negative consequences.

If something effects people in a negative way and they see or are effected by the consequences immediately, they often react quite rationally from my experience. If there's any time casual separation, ambiguity, or a time delay resulting in such ambiguity, most simply shrug and accept consequences as "the way things are."