People have a desire to trust and believe the system, they allow their own desire to maintain their current way of life to keep them blind to the truth, because the reality of the situation puts in jepordy how they wish to live. They hope that believing lies will allow them to hand the bag over to the next generation, and they hope they will be dead by the time reality hits.

In a nutshell that's he truth. Trump brings reality to a point where it needs to be dealt with right now, which is somthing they are unwilling to do.