I'm still trying to figure out why people do bad things.

[ShazzieB]

11. This analogy is spot on.

For the rest of us, it's like a bad magic trick where we all see how the magician is doing the trick but those in the target audience are completely enthralled and convinced it's magic.

This is exactly what it's like! And for years now, we've been forced to watch them cheer for one bad trick after another, when the fakery has been obvious to us fom the get go. If the stakes weren't so stratospherically high, it would just be annoying. Because they are that high, for the entire planet, it's well nigh unbearable!