It's impossible (por moi) to imagine that they believe even a soupçon of their verbal diarrhea.
Can So Many ackshully fail-to-see? that they are American- Planetary-Traitors ..all for the perks of $purchased-power/celebrity and keeping that sinecure.

Logic ain't enough, but a species This Fucked -vs- 'Evolution', a Force not even remotely 'understood' despite libraries on the topic:
means, well, you know..?

No respectable SciFi author would write such an implausible Story: we gets to Live it.
(Guess it beats bein immured-for-Liff ..in a Corner Office somewhere..) ;^>