@bot @blitzed @gentoobro At the core of nearly every shithole country is a regime made up entirely of western educated, monied elites that live sophisticated, western lives away from the rabble they reign over. This kind of societal demarcation is nicely outline in "1984." The fact that this confounds outsiders from more egalitarian traditions and lulls them into some sense of effortless superiority is highly advantageous to the aforementioned kleptocratic elite.