Perhaps the collective downfall we suffer from is assuming that any "ideological elite" ultimately has their philosophy based in some version of rational sanity and long term survival. We look at things and "excuse" them to some degree, on the reasoning that *"There HAS to be a good reason why they are doing this?"*

More and more, I come to think that *"because they can"* might be the only reason, and THEY are no more capable of critical thinking than any of the ostensible sheeple they might be executing... failing to see that their very actions are also their own death warrant. And maybe they just don't care.