"他们" 是 "上流社会人物" ,是 "达官显贵" 。他们给你一点施舍,动员你去服役,让你去打仗,调教你, "说起话来像上层社会那样咬文嚼字" ,事实上他们 "全是骗子" 。
"They" are "the people at the top", "the higher-ups", the people who give you the dole, call you up, tell you to go to war, fine you, "talk posh", "are all twisters really".