This is submission to tyranny, and it’s not safer in the long run.
The only institution that matters once a regime rejects law and order, is we the people. If the people roll over, then they are submitting to their dominators, and no one is free.
You're not wrong. People are too comfortable to do anything though, so failure is likely inevitable.
Same thing has been happening at least since the Mayans... they refused to give up their lifestyles even in the face of their own surrounding natural resources being eaten up from their fast expansion, and they eventually died off.
