Maybe it’s willed blindness as well. The seared conscience. Been accepting anti-reality and bread and circuses for so long they can’t handle the alternative - that’s it’s all lies and it’s evident. All the people applauding and admiring the emperor’s new clothes but he’s butt naked.
Very true. They have various degrees of “normalcy bias”. Denial and complacency and dumb as rocks.
The dumbing down of America has been very successful.