The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.
"The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter, 1981.
