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Well, yeah.
It's not the powerless that made things how they are, it's the powerful that shape the world.
It's also worth noting that when you're powerful but don't have the votes it takes to do a thing you want, the shortest path to getting those votes is unifying people around being mad at some sort of scapegoat.
This is why fascism looks the way it does
it emerges from a democracy in some sort of crisis
it's always that elites (a voting minority of powerful interests) need political support
the way they always get it is by focusing anger on a scapegoat, with promises to punish them