This is why it's nigh impossible to make the NPCs realize they're being used. They've all been convinced that blindly toeing the party line is a sign of intelligence, and that anyone who so much as questions it is a brain dead moron to be ignored.

The amount of projection is also par for the course. They actually got their useful idiots to instantly blame everyone else for not just their problems, but for the things they're doing to cause those problems at the same time.