I think it's less special than we think.
It's the same stuff I see in the corporate workplace often, we start a project, we put a lot of energy into it, we desire that project to be a success. If you are in a corporate environment and read the emails you get, you would think the business would be growing 10X every year. People claim successes all the time that are actually failures. They show a 10x growth but forget to say it's on a 100 dollar project. Sometimes it is framing, sometimes exaggeration, sometimes blatant lies.
The same principles go at the government, the ruler says: develop the strongest bomb ever, let's go to the moon, let's make everyone rich. And the system starts working.
There is a problem though going back to the voters saying:
It's the same today:
Does anyone belief we get better health care, roads, airport and less inflation?
When have we heard a politician say? "Hey I invested and failed."
Never.
Careers are built on success not on failure. People in their administrations, press, media will never challenge the leader. (they are also dependant on the success)
The emperor has no clothes.
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I can very well see a president saying (have seen this many times in my working life)
The same is now happening with Corona, the last 2 years have been a huge governmental disaster. Has any politician stood up? And say: I'm sorry, we really made cardinal mistakes.
These big organisations (government or corporate) are full of lies as they are not challenged, whole careers are built on lies.
Exposing the lies of the previous generation is very risky, these people are powerful and will bring you down. The whole reason you are up, is that you won't challenge the lies of the past. You will just create your own. Which leader would let a boy go up in the ranks that is willing to expose his fraud?
For that reason whistleblowers are always worse off. The system will turn against them, leaders, bureaucrats, so many lives, houses, families, dependant on the lies.
Who wants to accept that grandpa was a war criminal instead of a war hero?
The problem with your metaphor to "corona" is that no one made any mistakes, it was (and is) deliberate. The moon landing? Sure I might consider your take on it, but nah not doing it.
Another deception.