Yep, it's been happening for a long time and the results are obvious.

If someone isn't stopped in the act, far to often they take that as being allowed to do it.

When our public figures are allowed to break rules/laws/norms out in the open with impunity, so does the average citizen. Most of the people that stormed the capital on 1/6 legitimately believed they were able to because by the time they breeched the building cops had basically given up.

To them, the fact that earlier waves had beaten them into submission meant they were allowed to come in.

Those people weren't looking at the situation and using critical thinking to determine what they could do, they saw others weren't facing an immediate negative consequence, it was allowed.

It's an entirely dangerous social phenomenon, and the reason it's so frightening is that it's not new. It's incredibly common historically, look at any big societal collapse in history. And this behavior is almost always present.

It doesn't mean it's over already, but it's one of the last signs before the cliff.