After checking out your profile page, I must say that I'm not surprised by your comment.
I used to listen to a Christian radio show about the supposed New World Order, around six years back, and the guy was wrong on every single prediction he made. The host at one point actually predicted that the Illuminati or the Bilderbergers or whoever, were going to let Dole beat Clinton in 1996, just in order to more easily facilitate their coming globalist empire. Hoo boy. And then we wonder where people get the idea that anyone who believes there's more to the world than the donkeys and the GOP is a nut or an idiot.
The elites rule the masses. The wealthy control society. This isn't new. They live by one set of standards while they hold us "proles" (Orwellian short for proletariat) to another. And it takes a long time for them to feel the pain and misery of their own rules, reg, laws, and policies, because they live in an insulated world. And positively NOTHING changes, as basic as the time we spend at a traffic light, until some rich guy with connections howls to the right people. There are exceptions where the citizen has an impact...but for the most part, only when noxious policies begin to affect the rich and powerful will they change, and not necessarily through the process we learned in civics class.
An awful lot is indeed negotiated and implemented out of public sight. Politics, like everything else, is often a game to our elite rulers, their financiers, and fellow travelers. I tend to consult my Bible about these matters. But we can't ascribe everything bad that happens to a degenerate conspiratorial or corporate elite. Otherwise, we'd have to give them credit for the good stuff that happens too, and there's an awful lot of it. We have one heck of a standard of living, and a great deal of freedom. The fact that so many of us can pass the time sounding off like this means things ain't that bad, folks. Just my opinion.