The reality is that political dissenters are often diagnosed with schizophrenia if they, for example, accuse their government of crimes. Of course governments do commit crimes, but one can only acknowledge the crimes of someone else's government, or crimes that occurred long ago.

Even in the United States, the automatic reply to any significant claim of criminal behavior against the US government is "bat-shit crazy conspiracy theorist".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_i...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry

http://thejcl.com/pdfs/munro.pdf The Ankang: China's Special Psychiatric Hospitals

Governments, including the United States, project through their propaganda and education, a false reality in which the most important state actions are always moral and justified.

There is a type of mass pathology going on in which almost everyone ignores facts that contradict the official reality presented by authority.

I think this is unfortunately a normal aspect of group behavior because I have observed it even in a small technical group where the manager decided that Windows Communication Foundation worked differently than it actually did and everyone went along with it even though the documentation clearly stated otherwise.