"Serious question, because in recent years the power vacuum created by the lack of a formal global government in a world that's nevertheless "globalized" has been filled by a group of six thousand or so (one in a million) who've created a shadow governance structure (writes David Rothkopf in the book Superclass). Only a fraction are the heads-of-state we customarily think of as "influential foreign leaders". The rest are, not surprisingly, business and finance leaders and the hyper-wealthy, leaders of NGOs, influential entertainers (seriously--Bono is part of this world), and top military commanders. They get together regularly at meetings like the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, and decide amongst themselves how things will be for the other six billion of us."

Yes, but this has been true since about time the feudal system ended. Or when we started to started to get a significant middle class.

Why does it seem like lefties want to return to the period of time where we had mostly peasants and lords?
Is some European thing?