Just Politics

[Mariner*]

And then they become indigent and insulted and refuse to do any internal reflection upon their thinking processes continuing the exact same communication links in their brain that got them into hot water in the first place.

The first part to correcting or alleviating a behavior problem, is actually realizing or in your case admonishing that there is a problem in existence at all.

Denial isn't a river in Egypt, it's the refusal to even entertain that there is any kind of a river there at all.