The problem is the difference in technology and weapons. The elite would (hypothetically) need to share some with enough people to enforce their whims. They have many means of controlling that, including MK Ultra.

Their plan is to make us all paupers and serfs, which helps them maintain control. Hard to have any sort of legitimate uprising when the masters are on another continent.

The US "empire" is large enough to be difficult to maintain, and leaders have been responding not to disgruntled citizens willing to commit crime, but to globalist's orchestrated takedown of the US.