Secrets and Lies

``Our leaders, our liars, haven't bothered to protect us from the consequences of the lies at all. Too expensive. So austerity, disparity and stagnation are everywhere around us. Forced on us by those who suffer none of them, insulated as they are by wealth and power and privilege. Consequences are for little people, not their Betters. Our ‘Betters' have found Goebbels was wrong. You don't have to protect the people from the consequences of the lies you tell them, as long as you can blame those consequences on someone else.''