Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but is a reward in itself.

Music exalts each joy allays each grief expels diseases softens every pain subdues the rage of poison and the plague.

People are afraid and when people are afraid when their pie is shrinking they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears assuages anxiety.