@LukeAlmighty @mrsaturday @Moon a good memory is so contrary to the regime's practices that I'm prepared to believe any conspiracy theory at all that results in some mass shortening of memory.

But here's where they've been consistent: Ron Paul was castigated for talking about Middle East 'blowback' and the same people who were angry then are incredibly uninterested in why exactly Russia decided to invade the Ukraine. So not all childhood adages get betrayed. You just need evil ones.