I'm definitely in the "Some higher power is affecting people" camp. Because through out the story, people are being too quick in accepting that Karina is a bad guy and Aurora is a good guy.
I can understand if some of them were pretending because lese majeste or something, but there's no way...
Those kinds of people tend to be either be trolls or really self-entitled. The former can be tolerated because they just want to be annoying. The latter have such a narrowed view of the world that they consider any form of betrayal to be unjustified. Even if said betrayer has a gun pointed to...