Personally I think that the vast majority of them think that they're unstoppable and that there's absolutely no way that anything bad could ever happen to them. I think we're so far past the last time that they had any large scale consequences and that globalising production has made all the suffering... Distant. They think trouble is something that only happens to the people over there and not to them over here.

In essence, I think they don't believe anything can ever go wrong in the imperial core and as a result they do not give a shit. I think this hubris will be their undoing eventually.