Few things shift dramatically, and few people notice things unless they substantially change with stark differences, but it's the little things compounded that can affect you most.
Wages weren't suppressed all at once, but as the cost of living increased they didn't keep up. So the pain was gradual. The inflation and greedflation fallout from covid was felt immediately because prices were dramatically different. People sensed it and complained. The wage increases that we are seeing as a result of the Biden administration also will be gradual, but it will cause improvement overtime.
SCOTUS had been slowly chipping away at reproductive rights, then they ended Roe causing a stark difference in care. There was immediate harm with women dying and bleeding out. People noticed and fought back and it is being reflected in election results. Had they continued to act incrementally, they would have achieved what they wanted with no alarm bells.
The book bans and attacks on our history started on one city and is spreading. The rollback of diversity programs at schools and businesses will eventually compound to do us harm. It may not be apparent now because it hasn't directly impacted anyone's current situation at work and work and school cultures change over time, but just because the threat is subtle and difficult to discern, doesn't mean it's not there.
We have decades of harm that need to be undone. When changes are made it takes time to see results. When the fed gives money to states, the projects and programs they support don't spring up and complete overnight and you have to hope you live in a state that will appropriate the money as intended and to benefit everyone and not just wealthy areas.
Like the frog in the pot of water over the flame, some folks seem content to let incremental harm increase and compound because they are not able to discern the incremental improvements that are taking place to counteract it. I understand it, but I'm thinking long term not short term.
The programs and policies the Biden administration is putting in place is a net benefit and I'd really like to see them win this November and get overwhelming majorities in both the house and senate to see what they could do long term instead of having to fight the same battles over and over and having to reclaim the same ground lost over and over because dems sit out midterms and let the GOP get back in power to stall and undo progress made.
You do you tho.