"Once one manages to get into the inner circle by first having been born into the right family, and then by proving their loyalty to the cause by demonstrating a firm belief in an alternate reality, it absolutely doesn’t matter how big a failure they turn out to be on the job."

A near perfect description of former Dutch PM Mark Rutte, who left a 14 year trail of social and economic devastation, repeated his Trans-Atlantic fealty continuously (like with his rigged MH17 "investigation", F16 and F35 donations) and is now rewarded with the NATO post of Secretary General for his rendered services.