It gets really tricky because the ones we are primed to dislike as "figures of power" are generally the highest level of "useful idiot" or lowest level of "invested servant".

Meanwhile the real players are high and dry... maybe even beloved figures in society.

I think of the banking class in this light... the virtual millionaires who don't own anything other than the right to continue to milk the system so long as there is still a system to milk, but once it falls, I think they will find they cannot afford the security of the real power players, nor will they be accepted in society at large when SHTF.

Just thinking outloud... I'm still in shock that GLP is back, so I'm not sure I'm thinking as clearly as I usually am.