“the peasants pick up pitchforks and torches and they come for those who have behaved so abominably. “
They truly, literally, believe it cannot happen to them. Just as they believe they are the best, brightest, smartest people ever to walk the earth.
They are certain they have nothing to learn from the past.
When it happens to them, they will be -utterly- shocked.
The very definition of hubris.
“The French Revolution”.....