> So much going on

It's all part of the plan, man. Keep 'em distracted with too much info. It's like a law firm burying you with boxes and boxes and boxes of discovery, which has little or nothing to actually do with the case at hand. It's effective, and tiresome.

And that's why everybody sorta knows all this stuff is still going on, but we'll only get told the truth two or three generations later when the guilty are either dead or to old to matter for people to go after. But everybody knows politicians haven't become less corrupt all of a sudden.

People knowing is not enough. They should also care enough to vote/protest/etc differently

Voting and protesting have been attempted for decades, at least. They also are not enough. Those who wish to save the Union should look more closely at "etc".

Depends on the protests. E.g. the French beheading their king was also a protest.

Eh, not really. If he had been killed by a random brick thrown by a random protester, we could credit that to "protest". Louis XVI was arrested by the national army while attempting to flee the nation. After months of imprisonment by civil authorities, he was sentenced by a national assembly to be executed in the normal fashion for the time. That's really stretching the definition of "protest".