It's why it's called Machiavellian--it's past. It doesn't fit into the policed, modern world.
The modern world is antiseptic, leisurely. NPR can enunciate words with syllables drawn out twice as long as necessary during Morning Edition, and every hour thereafter. To giggle about the urgency to understand vaccines are harmless; Thalidomide during pregnancy, Vioxx, leucotomy,
The Eugenics Review (
url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1186/). The world needs health care.
Likewise governing by stealth, hidden agendas, the elite. 'Elites' don't exist in an egalitarian, progressive modern society--which this is, because everything is updated, new, the future now.
The Canadians understand this well.