For two reasons.

The first is that we have been in a stupor still trusting the system. For all the bad of government, we still believed that we could enact change. Either by voting, the courts, or the local level. This election has shown all three have been subverted.

The second is that people had their livelihoods and as long as government didn't do much more than raise their taxes, they wouldn't rock the boat. Now the Great Reset is plunging everyone into a depression, destroying businesses, and placing people under house arrest.

There is a fallacy in planning called normalcy bias. Basically it says that just because something hasn't happened in the past, it isn't wise to discount it off of that fact alone.