They honestly see themselves as the scrappy underdogs in any situation. They're the rebel alliance. They're Dumbledore's army. They're marginalized and striking from the shadows. They're siding with whoever is losing a war, thinking that somehow it makes that side morally superior.

They're fucking stupid.

But I have to hand it to whoever thought it up and uploaded this programming, because they've successfully turned the useful idiots into willing kamikaze martyrs for whatever cause of the moment. They'll run into a simple argument, get stomped, and come out of it thinking they took on Goliath and survived because they're main character or whatever when in reality they have the entire establishment watching their back.