Government is Incomplete Conquest

... are alleged to provide their electorates with choice. Cynics might object that, while elections give an electorate the feeling that they have choice, this is only an illusion... ... is only at the margins of political debate. In those rare instances when an existing political order is challenged, such things as populist movements and "color revolutions... ... and Fatah started out as terrorists, later transformed into peace-loving statesmen. Edmund Burke noted that it is best to draw "a secret veil...over the beginnings...