Bull-spit..
They actually do operate from what they think, and especially what the perceive to be factual for their customer base, thus making polity and policy governing their method of governance and more importantly to the consumer, how much wealth will be allowed to/for the common citizen.
Inflation will continue to drain the common man of his perceived power.
In the sixties, they invented Viet Nam to drain the American pool of intelligent (Their public school system really WAS successful) "angry young men" . . a serious threat to "the establishment".
In latter years, they learned they could accomplish the same thing without losing a voter base by merely scrambling childrens' brains with sex, drugs, rap n' shit, and 'effed up indoctrination.
Eliminate common language definition of words, and produce nothing BUT indoctrinairs, call them public school teachers, and eliminate the competition.
A brilliant, and so far successful plan.