The main point is that they can no longer say "trust us" with a straight face. If the politics of the last few decades has tried to teach us anything, it's tha

The main point is that they can no longer say "trust us" with a straight face. If the politics of the last few decades has tried to teach us anything, it's that this is not true. No amount of shaming or obvious shortcomings will ever allow some people to bridge the reality/ideology-gaps in question. You don't see less lying as people are confronted with their lies, you're met with a hurricane of new lies, a Gish Gallop of misinformation, over and over. If all goes truly wrong, then people in power embrace the genuinely Orwellian and start talking about freedom in chains, or peace in war. Nothing shakes them out of it, and nothing really changes how some people view it. Or at least, nothing so minor as what the future might hold; most people seem to struggle with what's actually happening today, under their noses.