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... ... that is the thugs, emerged cleansed and sanctified as the feudal aristocracy. When Thomas Hobbes grounded his theory of government in the consent of free individuals born...