I mean, they must know how much the public mocks them, right? What are the odds they’re actively trying to make everything worse as a Jokerfied “I’m taking the whole world out with me.” kind of thing?
Just a random tin foil hat thought, don’t take this too seriously
Yes, they are like aliens. They have no frame of reference to understand how a normal proletarian lives and they don’t need to. Yet for a proletarian, understanding how these aliens think helps explain much of our own lives.