Government is Incomplete Conquest

... instances when an existing political order is challenged, such things as populist movements and "color revolutions," elites almost always find ways to diffuse them. There may be excellent reasons why the state of conquest is almost never challenged.... ... outrageous essay in some fringe journal, but in one of the American government text books he authored--American Government: Incomplete Conquest (1976). It all started in the Americas when when European explorers planted the flags of their countries ...