Ebil & Kray
They've quit thinking for themselves. It's too painful. It's easier to just blindly accept whatever absurdities are spoonfed to them than to question the idiocy and realize the whole thing is kabuki theatre and they've been played their whole lives. Subconsciously they know these things, and that is what creates the tension and cognitive dissonance. Almost the definition of it actually. People avoid pain, especially psychic pain, even if it's necessary for survival. They would rather knowingly consume the pleasurable poison, than the bitter truth. Even if it kills them. And it surely will.
We have chosen the harder road that leads to life.
Follow the thread. She's one of our hot alien overlords. Not human. Ayy, but still hot.