Reply #9: They Have To Realize They Are Peasants, Sir

[The Magistrate]

So long as they think of themselves as petty gentry (which is what people who describe themselves as 'middle class' actual mean), the will think it is themselves who would be the targets of a peasant revolt, and that their interests lie with those of the high nobility. This country depends on the successful mass-marketing of the idea of aristocratic privilege, for everyone; our true founding slogan was 'Every man a country Squire!'