People defend the lies because they have to. To admit you’ve structured your life around a lie is hard; the more that lie has affected your life, the more you’ve had to give up because of the lie, the more you need it to be true.
Psychologists call that equity rescuing!
The longer a person has invested in a lie the harder it is for them to admit they waisted their lives on it.
See: qtards
Especially among those who don't really have anything to fall back on - which is an increasing number of people these days. If you have no personality beneath spouting whatever crap you've heard from the media, the more you're going to cling to that stuff to have some semblance of a personality.
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