They’re trying justify making the selfish choice in the prisoner’s dilemma and abusing the trust that is so useful to cooperative/polite society.

They also get annoyed if coperative society is rational enough to slap them with the reciprocity they deserve after being found out for being a twat.

But I think they rationally they do want a 2-tier society, where lots of people in one tier cooperate to build trust and wealth (generally using trust instead of lawyers), then their tier extorts that wealth. And they find ways to protect themselves from consequences (generally using lawyers).

I’m sure many of the brainwashed masses don’t know which tier they’re in though.