People always loved best what they identified most with. - Arundhati Roy

Faced with the Real World, she clung nervously to old remembered rules, and had no one but herself to rebel against.

In Kashmir the only thing to do with nightmares was to embrace them like old friends and manage them like old enemies. (p358)

Modern democracies have been around long enough for neoliberal capitalists to learn how to subvert them. They have mastered the technique of infiltrating the instruments of democracy—the 'independent' judiciary, the 'free' press, the parliament—and moulding them to their purpose.