Millions of Renfields

A fairly large portion of the population wants to be free, but even more people seem to want slavery for themselves, but more importantly for other people. They want the USA to be more like East Germany or China--at least they imagine they do. They're the pro-oligarchy faction. Their psychological attachment to the oligarchs is pretty interesting. It's the million Renfield army.

Renfield is the semi-comical character from Dracula, which is, I think, the 19th century version of calling out the oligarchy in fictional form. Renfield didn't have his blood sucked by Dracula, but he was psychically drained and reduced to sub-human, Gollum like status and lives as a parody Dracula eating insects and other creatures to drain their essence. Gollum is identical to Renfield, if you think about it--the ring drained his life.

That's an apt description of the pro-oligarch faction. They assume the point of view of the oligarchy because they are like them, just much less accomplished. They're small versions of Bill Gates, psychologically. They want to dominate others, but can't as individuals, so they seek to do it via collective mechanisms like the state.

The Renfields are probably more dangerous than the Draculas.

The Draculas think their significantly better and freer than the Renfields, but they're really the same.