>>8328227Different anon here—we also later learn that Megatron was manipulated/brainwashed from being a peaceful revolutionary advocating for equal rights via open public discourse more akin to Martin Luther King Jr., to the hate-filled, ruthless tyrant we know him as, by a whole different group of Senate members who would later become key members of the “Decepticon Justice Division” (basically his most edgy, most loyal followers who exist to scare would-be defactors into staying alleged out of fear). These same brainwashing techniques are partly what led Megatron to eventually realize that he wasn’t pleased with his own actions in the war, and to gradually reject his conqueror tendencies.
Basically, the upper class never has the foresight, skill, or resources to manipulate the working class as directly as they think they can/will without consequences, but they will still try—and although war may appear on the surface to be a result of divides between socioeconomic/religious/belief systems, it is generally a result of fallible, sometimes invisible influences by an upper class which has no idea what it’s doing, and creates nothing but a legacy of the very rebellion which it tried to prevent out of a fear of and disconnect from its constituents.
