Ah, yes. The staple of the Rat political pantheon.
All the Rat followers bow down to the god of Good Intentions.
No amount of abject failure matters.
No matter how much bread they throw out to us or how bloody the circuses they've set up to entertain & instill a deep sense of fear, we always manage to be human enough to screw up changing into the perfect model that proves the theory.
Those smart guys can't & don't fail, because they have no control over our failure to meet their expectations. The god of Good Intentions is supposed to lead us to the Promised Land, so any who don't follow it have to be stupid, blind or evil.