Fighting against a policy is not the same as fighting against it's intended outcome. Me fighting for 2nd amendment rights is not the same as me fighting against lowering the murder rate.

How does he reconcile his form of degeneracy in fighting to keep people at the top of society rich and decadent while pushing the poor down? When people are pushed down too much they can also grow degenerate and decadent as the very rich and develop mental and physical issues which may devolve into drinking and other forms of drug use.

To me, this represents the paradox of morality. That in a closed (somewhat in this case) ecosystem the extremes can horseshoe around, which reminds of horseshoe theory in politics as well as this phenomenon of society seemingly rubberbanding when forcefully pushed to one extreme throughout history. I could go on about my pet theory of how it may relate to thermodynamic regulation on Earth's ecosystem, a self-sustaining form of gradient moderation, but it's too unsubstantiated.