Made from Concentrate

Kevin Carson makes a great post: The So-Called Green Revolution which not only applies to agriculture, but in its general pattern, points out a lot of the myths that our modern age labors under.

It's admittedly a long read, but very much worth it. I think it's really the economic questions that need to be worked out in order to dispel the lie of necessity, which is really more fundamental to most people these days than the lie of legitimacy. The veil of legitimacy is worn very thin, and I think most people that try to assert it really hold onto it only because of fear.
Most people think of themselves as pragmatic utilitarians underneath it all. And nearly everyone has to know in some part of their mind, that these "leaders" are all a bunch of crooks, nothing more or less. But as long as people think this bunch of crooks is necessary to live a happy, healthy life, they will do whatever it takes, even lie to themselves, in order to preserve them.
It's the "good cop/bad cop" scenario taken to the next level, really.
But anyone who's had any experience at all can tell you - don't trust the "good cop".