The faithlessness of the inner party

When the inner party and the outer, and perhaps also the masses, taught by the inner party, believe different things, the regime and the ideological rule of the inner party begin to collapse.

Provided their practical implications are different.

And they always are.

Then it all falls apart.

Russia, in the 1980's and 1990's.

Or the Christian churches, even now.

The fallacy of the Noble Lie.