Oligarchic power is flaunted openly, which humiliates ordinary citizens.

Evidence

What is this strange drive to reveal the nonhidden? Maybe it’s that, in liberal democracies that still pay lip service to social equality (or at least “equity”), there is something profoundly unsatisfying about how open our global elites are about the power they believe they have a right to wield over the rest of us. The mechanics of oligarchy are not hidden; they are flaunted with a level of pride that actively humiliates their spectators. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 787

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Mirror World thesis of Klein’s earlier chapters: conspiracy culture as a reaction to visible plutocracy.