05-24-2022, 06:43 AM
Another thing, too, about your mention about democracies: they seem to evolve/devolve into de facto oligarchies in one way or another. Your point about power brokers really running things aligns with those ideas. No matter what, leaders seem to emerge from organizations, no matter the form of polity that is supposed to govern it. The informal leaders are the real showrunners, or at least hugely influential.