Status Updates From From Democracy to Freedom

"In the 20th century transitions from dictatorship to democracy in Greece, Spain, and Chile, and more recently in Tunisia and Egypt, social movements that overthrew dictators had to go on fighting against the very same police under the
democratic regime. This is kratos, what Bill Moyers calls the Deep State, carrying over from one regime to the next."

This was an excellent collection of essays and histories that demonstrates the failure of democracy, even direct democracy, to effect any lasting change.

The writing was quite enjoyable and easy to read, and always left me pondering what I'd just read, whenever I was forced to put the book aside.