User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 357: The Nine Demon Gates, Review./@comment-8153438-20131025132332/@comment-7418318-20131025161240

Yes, thus the real-life polititians have "bark in proxy" because they control skilled and powerful forces.

But what does the magic council have?

Yep... the Rune Knights... the epitome of uselessness. And that is if they even manage to turn up in time to be useless in the crisis at hand to begin with.

Most times they even come too late to be useless within the crisis and just end up throwing their imaginary weight around after everything's settled already.