Failure to stop them when it could cost your job has made it that resisting them now could cost your life. The problem with commie cancer is how slowly it kills. It causes significant pain in the short term to undo the damage, so people prefer to let it fester.
Rent control is a good example of this problem. At implementation, a few people get a good deal on rent for a short period. No one notices the slowly climbing costs and diminishing quality. When people finally notice that shit housing is unreasonably expensive, the solution means that some little old lady is going to have a housing problem, so politicians call the crap situation a good thing and you get NYC just before Xi's disease hit.
Failure to stop them when it could cost your job has made it that resisting them now could cost your life. The problem with commie cancer is how slowly it kills. It causes significant pain in the short term to undo the damage, so people prefer to let it fester.
Rent control is a good example of this problem. At implementation, a few people get a good deal on rent for a short period. No one notices the slowly climbing costs and diminishing quality. When people finally notice that shit housing is unreasonably expensive, the solution means that some little old lady is going to have a housing problem, so politicians call the crap situation a good thing and you get NYC just before Xi's disease hit.