When you are the class of privileged people that have all of the money and all of the power – then about the only thing that you ever get nervous about is losing the very qualities that permit you to have those financial resources and power at your disposal. So then, what we so find is that in times of social unrest and societal unease, those that are the elites of a given country, are the very same people, that have little or no interest in ceding any ground to those that are in opposition to them, no matter how justified their cause may well be, because they do not wish to risk any possible troubling change to the current social order in which they are the kingpins of.
After all, those that are superrich have it all; so that, therefore, they have zero interest in any sort of sharing, or in the diminishing of their power – unless upon their own terms. So too, this signifies in any construct, in which there is a massive disparity between those that have all of the material assets as well as the controlling influence upon all governmental policy that affects them as in comparison to the common man, that it is thus vital that those that serve the superrich for a very generous stipend, prove their value, so of, by putting forth whatever narrative, muscle, as well as policies so required, that will induce those that are the common people, that all is well; or if not well in the present, will, given enough patience, or on an arc long enough, eventually trickle down to them.
The superrich make it their point to try to convince others, that their wealth and power, is absolutely legitimate, and therefore that they are deserving of having such; of which, the importance of convincing the general public that this is true, is of high importance to them, because these superrich so wish to impress upon others, that all that they have, is really part and parcel of simply playing the capitalistic game, very well. The implication of this sort of mindset, so accepted, is to thereby successfully win over a huge subset of the population, so as to convince them that all is fair, and that therefore the opportunity for these others to thereby become superrich, is thus some sort of achievable goal.
The superrich need to be perceived by a significant percentage of the population as being seen as licit in having achieved their status; which thereby makes it easier for the superrich to thus convince those believers, that therefore the social order need not change at all, because not only is it fair, but clearly it is also the best conceivable pathway to becoming successful, for these others, as well. Yet, the superrich know that this is all a lie, and when they are constantly confronted and bombarded with the facts and information, which demonstrates that any nation having a small elite that has all of the money and all of the power, cannot possibly represent a true democracy -- and further to the point, a nation in which so few have so much, can’t possibly represent egalitarianism, fair play, justice, or authenticity, then we do so find, that the superrich get really nervous, because knowing that they aren’t the type to willingly give up what they so have, then they know that there will be indeed, a frightful reckoning, and blood in the streets.