Lesley - you hit the nail on the head with that post. It was the bait and switch - the lying and deceit that really matter. The tools of the con artist who takes advantage of the mark - and we were all marks.
Yes, it does matter what the person behind the mask is like. Evil can only succeed when it disguises itself as good, and by the time people figure it out, it is often too late to recover. We see this in political leaders in history and around the world. Lies, lies and more damned lies.
Rawat is just evil, surrounded by enablers who may or may not be evil, but who are complicit.
