Yeah. It is all a global dog & pony puppet show to distract us from the real vampires pulling the strings.
Because it works & has been since before some of our ancestors were playing a smaller version of it.
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It was a little more obvious in hindsight then, when you consider the figurehead had a far tinier force at their disposal than the "supporters" did.
Now you just use / buy / rent someone elses.
Roughly speaking, it's not quite that straightforward...