Camoflauged pecking orders in informer saturated society

Ever wonder how and why so many so clearly knowingly involved in Trump's false assassination attempts stay silent about it?
They don't need to be threatened; they know: co-operation is essential for survival.
Many a suicide was NOT suicide.
I don't need proof to KNOW.
Even on a schoolyard playground, there are almost unacknowledged rules about deference.
Equally, animals quickly sense who not to mess with, and who is too week to survive. It's like sensing when someone is staring at you from behind; it just happens, automatically and immediately. We NEED to know where we stand in relation to others.
Most, however, understand quite imperfectly, and fear or don't fear inefficiently.
So having others to help watch your back seems appropriate. Even though those watchers gain otherwise quite less available opportunity to stab you in the back.
Not meaning to encourage paranoia here; fear is that which we ought most to fear. But propensity to join ranked orders is endemic - clubs, religions, almost any group such as we need to combat lonliness and alienation involves levels of power. Certainly capitolistic business ALWAYS does.
So we get used to it. Until overthrowing oppression becomes unavoidable - for survival. A dictator can be a help, then a great harm. But we almost always acquiese to SOMEONE having rights and power we ourselve s do not. Which is why some prefer to attempt to turn their back to society, in its entirely.