Whether or not you require a reptilian agenda or global ruling elite to make sense of how things work, the most naive assumption is that anyone who winds up in positions of power is chosen arbitrarily.
Or even more cynically: once the peasants deposed the aristocracy, they had a small group of people among whom they could find friends, and that group shows up everywhere because (a) it's nepotistic and self-perpetuating but more importantly, (b) 98.6% of humanity are TOTALLY FUCKING INCOMPETENT at anything more complex than checking FaceBook, posting their tits, drinking like boars and rutting like hyenas, then passing out and when they wake up caked in fluids and feces, blaming the government.
Sad but true
