Thursday, October 27, 2022

Praising the Nonexistent "Deep State"

EVERYONE WHO ACCEPTS REALITY is quite well aware that there exists in the American government no such thing as a "deep state", that such a creature is purely the invention of conservative America, also known as "the far right". There are approximately two million people employed by teh federal givernment, and there is among thm no vast conspiracy to undermine consrvative policies. The deep state is but another in the long litany of fabrications by those who support Donald J. Trump. The sort of people who envision a mythological deep state also tend to embrace "Q-Anon", whose secretive, sequestered leader is doubtless a high school drop out living in his parents basement. The same sort of people who believe, or claim to believe that Hillary clinton ran a pedaphile operation out of teh basement of a pzza parlor which has no basement, who claim to believe that the presidency was stolen from Trump, and that Trump is an instrument of Jesus Christ, rather than the devil. But jpurnalist David Rothkopf is willing to give the notion a run for the money, in his fascinating new book "American Resistance; The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation." Rothkopf stimpulates that the "deep state" consists of all two million federal government employees. Why not? then he proceeds to detail the numerous instances, all documented and confirmed, in which bureaacrats within the government prevented President Trump from breaking the law or enacting idiotic policies simly by refusing to comply with them. Its a long list. Peole within teh governmental bureacracy expediently brushed aside Trump's suggestion that not only should a wall be built along the entire U.S. - Mexican border, but that beneath it there should be built a moat, filled with alligators. Likewise, when Trump proposed that missile and bomb strikes be used to destroy advancing caravans of refugees from Latin America, before thay reached American soil, in stepped teh deep state, bailing out the maniacal president, saving him from his own idiocy and lunacy. Assuming that the "deep state" consists of members of teh governmental bureacracy, it should be given credit not for trying to derail Trump's aganda, but for saving the former president from his otherwise likely fate; a stretch in a mental health asylum, or more appropriately, prison.

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