People just don't want to know that they're gullible idiots. Hence Trump.
Hence why women that have fallen for a romance scam and had all their saving taken, often still say that they love the scammer.
The need to believe overwhelms everything.
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London. Olen Suomi Soy Barcelona. I am Ukraine.
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.