Facts can be overruled by the future success or failure of some ideological position, and so the rightness of the Leader cannot be disproved by evidence. Here is desert at its most intensive. The Leader is right because he deserves to be right, not because the facts, based on cause and effect, support his claims.
"The totalitarian system, unfortunately, is foolproof against such normal consequences; its ingeniousness rests precisely on the elimination of that reality which either unmasks the liar or forces him to live up to his pretense." (The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, 1994; page 384).
Two thousand years of exile have developed in the Jewish people a comparable ability to deceive themselves regarding the objective, cause and effect facts of their circumstances; and sixty odd years of national autonomy are not enough to wash all that self-deception away.
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