They don't have anyone else, and if they acknowledge that, then their only options left are to give up completely or do something about it themselves, and they can't psychologically handle being either cowardly or brave, they are just another flavor of NPC, they need the delusion of a daddy savior figure, it's their own version of "big daddy government will take care of me" that we see on the left, it'd be much psychologically healthier to just admit we're allowing our civilization to be conquered and destroyed because we're not fit for natural selection, at least it would be based in reality