Many people would like political solutions to their problems. In other words, they want the government to force others to do what they prefer.
However, people with any moral sense recognize that can only create more problems. Clever players, especially those with Machiavellian ethics, use the government as a tool. But they prefer to do so from behind a curtain.
They know that it’s more effective, and a lot safer, to pull the puppet’s strings from offstage. They sometimes step into the limelight, depending on the circumstances and the depth of their personal narcissism. But they’re all about two things: Power and money. Call them the Deep State.
Once a country develops an entrenched Deep State, only a revolution or a dictatorship can eliminate it. And probably only in a small country.
The American Deep State is a powerful informal network which controls most institutions. You won’t read about it in the news because it controls the news. Politicians won’t talk about it, or even admit that it exists. That would be like a mobster discussing murder and robbery on the 6 o’clock news. You could say the Deep State is hidden, but it’s hidden in plain sight.
The Deep State is involved in almost every negative thing that’s happening right now. It’s essential to know what it’s all about.
The State
The Deep State uses and hides behind the State itself.
Even though the essence of the State is coercion, people have been taught to love and respect it. Most people think of the State in the quaint light of a grade school civics book. They think it has something to do with “We the People” electing a Jimmy Stewart character to represent them. That ideal has always been a pernicious fiction because it idealizes, sanitizes, and legitimizes an intrinsically evil and destructive institution, which is based on force. As Mao once said, political power comes out of the barrel of a gun.
The Deep State
The Deep State controls the State, i.e., the government. It’s as old as history itself. But the term “Deep State” originated in Turkey, which is appropriate since it’s the heir to the totally corrupt Byzantine and Ottoman empires. And in the best Byzantine manner, our Deep State has insinuated itself throughout the fabric of what once was America. Its tendrils reach from Washington down to every part of civil society. Like a metastasized cancer, it can no longer be easily eradicated.
