Those in power don’t care about the innocents they kill, the genocide their system causes, the suffering, the bigotry, the inequality.
They are simple-minded. To them, the world is a game of kill or be killed, and they won. They don’t care or care to understand that their “winning” will kill them too eventually. They live in a fantasy world where the only rule is take until you die. They will use every tool that the system rigged to favour them has given them. You cannot shame them into submission. To them, if they submit they die and It’s you or them. Don’t try to convince them otherwise, to them your words are a trick to win and become just as sick as they are.
Take, consume until it’s all gone, move on, take, consume, move, take, consume, move.
The only thing they know how to do is take a beautiful creation and turn it into death.
The worst part is that they don’t want to be any better.
They are broken human beings that eat their own children, their own species, a cancer, and if we let them they won’t stop until the species is dead. Until everything is dead and there is nothing left to kill.
You said it well and from the heart.
When I have to describe it to people without scaring/angering them, I describe the ruling class as leaky buckets: no matter how much money they get, it’s never enough, but they keep refilling that bucket and it keeps leaking and that becomes the world’s problem.
Money hoarders, treating the planet the way common hoarders treat their residences.