Consider that fluoride ingestion has been linked with increased anxiety and depression[*]. Depending upon one's political objectives, this could be a desirable outcome. For instance, the "anti-terror" decades of invasion would be easier to accept for an anxious public. Or depression may lead to more consumer activity.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258252498_Fluoride_...
Society comforted themselves with the official narrative while branding whistleblowers conspiracy theorists.
You may as well call the following "dissolved minerals": lead, arsenic, uranium, mercury, asbestos
Moreover, as someone else pointed out, watching commercial airliners fly into skyscrapers and having our world upended with military guards at airports and new governmental snooping powers that we just had to accept is all pretty much enough for the things you mentioned.
1: https://news.gallup.com/poll/102943/republicans-report-much-...