Ironic, really, that he'd just been thinking about how the information didn't weigh on him anymore, and then Kingsley asked him a question that Terrence wasn't at all sure he could answer. Not to Kingsley's satisfaction, anyway. He really didn't know how close to the topic he was allowed to get before he risked triggering the Unbreakable Vow. His brow furrowed in concentration as he tried to think of a way to answer.
"It's about belief, and compliance," he said finally, after organizing his mind enough that he had somewhat convinced himself he wasn't talking about the potion. "Morals, almost. That I know best what is good for the wizarding population and for them, and they can't disagree. It doesn't necessarily compel them to follow a direct order - but it makes them damn easy to persuade."
It was specific to Death Eaters and the Ministry, the way a love potion was specific to the person who desired someone to fall in love with them. But that much, Terrence wasn't sure he could say. Hopefully that much was already clear to Kingsley.
He considered Kingsley's point, and nodded. He was probably right, that the information was out there. People could talk about it without even knowing that they were talking about it, talking about their false belief in the Ministry. And there were probably other clues, patterns, that Terrence wouldn't be able to comprehend until he had actually seen them. He could wrap his mind around the fact that they did exist, though. "Serves me right for not reading the paper," he said, with a bit more humor than he'd had since the conversation had gotten more serious. "Not reading it looking for that, anyway. But if there were a way to make it more obvious to people who weren't actively looking for patterns, that'd probably be the best way to get it out there. In the widest-read wizarding paper there is."