Given the current state of "first past the post" elections, you only need 51% consensus among the group of wolves and sheep for the wolves to dine well among the sheep tonight. And that need not be "fake consensus." It's very *valid* consensus.
Power attracts the corruptible. Government attracts the wolves. Regardless of "lying" or not, government has the authority backed by the guns to enforce their will and granted moral right to do so with the fig-leaf of "consensus".
@freemo