Make that "the parasitic, sociopathic, narcissistic, power-hungry, avaricious, self-styled 'elite.'"
If there is any large group we need to disempower and surveil, it is them -- not soccer moms or white males or off-the-plantation blacks or conservatives or any of the other mostly sane and civilized people the "elite" insist on targeting for surveillance, propaganda, and actual elimination.
My grandpa showed me how to knot the rope...