The Truth About the Deep State
In a very good op-ed at the Washington Examiner, the veteran political analyst Michael Barone—who merits great respect and admiration for his work—writes, “‘Deep State’ intrusiveness 20 years ago was intended to protect ordinary Americans against terrorists like those who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks. ‘Deep State’ intrusiveness today is more often directed at protecting ordinary Americans by regulating their own behavior and habits.”
Barone is on the right track there, but he has not got it quite right.
The Deep State intrudes continually into Americans’ lives strictly to increase and maintain its own power. It has no desire whatever to protect “ordinary Americans” from themselves or from anybody else. None at all.
Just take a look at our southern border, the murder rates in our cities, the number of drug overdoses, the sprawling homeless encampments, the city streets strewn with excrement and hypodermic needles, the incidence of teen suicide, the legalized ransacking of retail stores, the destruction of people’s purchasing power via monetary inflation and unrestrained government spending, forced impoverishment through anti-fossil-fuel mandates, the demolition of our health care system, unbounded lying and mythologizing by media outlets, the blatant corruption of election processes, incarceration of protestors for years in federal prisons without trial, indoctrination of children with perverse falsehoods, governments cancelling church services, mass murders committed by people already known to be mentally ill, colleges and universities taken over by thugs both within and outside the classrooms, years of rioting in the streets until the regime ordered the mobs to stand down as national elections approached—and the numerous other outrages we endure every day.
Our national regime cares only for its own power. It has nothing to do with the people of the United States except as a master. The regime shamelessly does the bidding of an international coalition of institutions engaging in enormous abuses indistinguishable from tyranny while openly brainwashing the public via moldy bread and disgraceful circuses. We, the people, are merely a resource to be exploited and cast aside when depleted.
The corruptness of our institutions represented in the term Deep State is far more thorough and destructive than even an analyst as brilliant as Barone acknowledges. It is quite possible that he cannot bring himself to believe it.
The truth is even worse than Barone’s formulation indicates. Deep State intrusiveness today is directed at terrorizing ordinary Americans by unleashing mass destruction and confusion by deranged people who hate them and want them gone.