One can generalize how quickly they forget to structural problems with the political system which have for centuries now failed to cure themselves.
Some good examples spring to mind, eg US trade negotiations chronicled by Prestowitz.
It really has been a pathetic story, multitude of fields and topics, how quickly they forget, looking back.
Institutional memory, political memory itself, is something that has to be worked at.
Anti intellectual attitudes toward things like this are among the most dangerous tendencies of more powerful forces within such regimes growing frustrated with their ineffective structures, flailing against any reasoned arguments, from whatever quarter, for some way out.
See also, re how quickly they forget, yet hark back to an impossible colonial dream ideal:
http://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-era-begins.html
And DK's comment, to one of his commenters.
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