I liked how the author framed the concept of shame here.

Taking Our Country Back:

As you can see, the questioner is a young fellow with the distinct appearance of a Team America World Police marionette, who identified himself (under pressure from El Sayed) as "Tommy.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote of the difference between being ashamed, a state of awareness that you have fallen short of perceived ideals and beliefs about yourself, or have been involved in something that falls short—and living in shame, a state of cultivated denial about that gap, which ironically enough causes a person to stop feeling shame at all; to become a shameless person.

It's my belief that we're a nation that lives in shame. I believe that living in shame is encouraged and incentivized, and so I think there are millions of people who simply do not engage with the truth of what they are involved with, or the reality of their world views, because misleading and comfortable narratives, propaganda, and disinformation make unawareness the path of least resistance. I believe there are millions more who are psychologically unable (or nearly unable) to even address such things, because encountering evidence of the truth is so confrontational to their world views that it shuts down their critical reasoning.