Yes, it's a more pragmatic way to put it. It should be stressed, because the first tendency is towards victimization, but it's as fruitful as to victimize one-self for the own errors, keeping us in an eternal loop of decadence, as the one we are seeing now.

I would again focus on people for that matter. Politicians are sellers, they will sell nothing but what people demand. So whenever you hear a politician saying blatant nonsense, hate him not but the no-less-than-20% of the population that already believes what he just said (so he must say it to garner those votes).

It was/is the exact same in Argentina. The previous president literally said on TV that "inflation was due to diabolic influences". To most of us it will sound like if he just got insane, but nope: by then I had already been making questionnaires on the street and an alarming percentage of people actually believed that to stop inflation the central bank had to be cleaned out of demons. It was an eye opening work: no politician ever says anything that people isn't believing already: that's where they take their material from.

Anyone you hear "repeating what they said on TV" already believes it, but they express it openly only once they get that highly official external validation, to elude the unbearable questioning of what they want/like to believe.

Yes, that's the one and only way. But again, not out of victimization in the tone of "us against that enemy" but on redemption in the tone of "us against our flaws".