Communists: For your own good, we will make you live like peasants (or even better, starve to death) while we live high on the hog.
Environmentalists: For your own good, we will make you live like peasants (or even better, starve to death) while we live high on the hog.
Tribal warlords: For your own good, we will make you live like peasants (or even better, starve to death) while we live high on the hog.
Yassir Arafat, Taliban, whatnot: For your own good, we will make you live like peasants (or even better, starve to death) while we live high on the hog.
etc. etc.
Sounds like a description of Dear Reader.
By jove I think you’ve got it. :-)