The elite theorist, Vilfredo Pareto, once theorized the “circulation of elites” and their techniques used to maintain their rule. To understand the weak response of the American elites and how it will lead to their fall, a clear understanding of the “fox and lion” elites is necessary.

Foxes and Lions

Pareto had divided elites in class I and class II residues, class I were foxes who ruled through cooperation, diplomacy, and deviousness; class II were lions who ruled through the use of force. Pareto argued that although no one ruling elite can rule through force alone, it was necessary for them to use in order maintain their authority, he said:

Whatever the form of government, men holding power have as a rule a certain inclination to use that power to keep themselves in the saddle, and to abuse it to secure personal gains and advantages.

Elites such as Stalin had killed and imprisoned millions of alleged “enemies of the people,” in particular fellow elites who followed Leon Trotsky and Bolsheviks who posed a threat to his power. During World War Two, Czech assassins killed Nazi security chief Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. In retaliation for this, German soldiers entered the Czech town of Lidice, shot all the men, and burnt the village to the ground. In other parts of the world, Saddam Hussien in Iraq had purged the Ba’ath party in 1979 on live TV, calling out the names of suspected conspirators in order to secure his power.