@alessandro @cstross Today the very rich are determined to exalt themselves free of any need for their fellows to rule without constraint.
It won't work; it is not able to work. But they are determined to have their selfish god and be told that all their sins are virtues.
"All my sins are virtues" is relatively cheap in blood when it starts; you could have changed history, and thus our present, with 20 deaths in the 70s. Restoring a policy of facts will be more expensive than that today.