When you look around and see fascism at every turn, and Usians doing nothing about it, this is part of why.
Yes, same disassociative apathy happened in Weimar Germany. For Usians, there's another factor.
We were raised on sanitized fairy tales where the only bad things that happen are epic struggles where good defeats evil, after which happily ever after.
We're waiting for the epic struggle. So we can be the good guys defeating the bad guys. The bad guys ain't yet epic enough for our tastes.