Your excellent comment goes to the core of the Hobbesian deal we are all born into with the rise of the nation state primarily from the early 19th century along language, religious, cultural and in many cases ethnic lines.

The Nation State presumes that people with a shared identity will do better at looking after their own. In exchange for protection, functional institutions and infrastructure, people give the State a monopoly on the currency, the use of force, a portion of your productivity and an agreement to fight on the States behalf.

What happens, however, when a growing plurality comes to believe they are getting the raw end of this deal? Those who continue to benefit from that system, which typically includes the experts and elites, can't understand why those who no longer benefit as much as they lose are willing to blow the system up.

The elite tell them "Well you don't want anarchy, do you?" without realizing that as people become desperate, plenty of nutt'in begins to seem like a pretty good deal.