I was thinking about A Few Good Men and the infamous "You can't handle the truth." line. Maybe subconsciously many Americans want to be number one in the world. They want the strongest military and security against any perceived threats to their privileged position. They want national security agencies working on their behalf and they don't want to know how they do it. They aren't aware that they think they are better than.

I found virtue signaling about vaccines really irritating, which has been transferred to war now.