The "traditionalist" Neocons are going to have to decide
to fish or cut bait.
I've been writing about the
fracturing Deep State for the past five years:
Is the Deep State Fracturing into Disunity? (March
14, 2014)
Is the Deep State at War--With Itself? (December
14, 2016)
Epstein and the Explosive Crisis of the Deep State (July
15, 2019)
The conflict has now reached
the hot-war stage where bodies are turning up, explained away by the usual
laughable covers: "suicide," "accident" and "heart
attack." That Jeffrey Epstein's death in a secure cell is being
labeled "suicide" tells us quite a lot about the desperation of the
faction trying to protect the self-serving predators that have wormed their way
into control of many Deep State nodes of power.
Here's the basic structure of
the Deep State conflict as I see it. For context: The Deep State exploded in size and power
during World War II. At the war's end, the proper role of the U.S. in the
postwar era was up for grabs, and over the course of a few years, the CIA and
other intelligence agencies were established and the doctrine of containment of
the Soviet Union became the dominant narrative, a narrative that held with
remarkable consistency for four decades until the Soviet Union collapsed in
1991.
This
collapse was another critical juncture, and debates over America's role in this
"unipolar era" were finally settled in favor of the
militarily-geopolitically activist ideology of neoconservatism (Neocons).
This
globalist ideology spawned a variety of monstrous policy disasters and as a
result the Neocons have been challenged by factions within the Deep State.
This Neocon Globalist camp is
dominated by the amoral ideology of the ends justifies the means. This everything is allowed, anything
can be hidden or justifiedideology slowly spread from overseas black ops and a spectrum
of interventions to the power nodes of the domestic Deep State.
The failures of Neocon
globalism have ushered in another critical juncture in the Deep State. What is
America's proper role in a multi-polar world that is fracturing across multiple
faultlines? This juncture is a manifestation of a broader profound political disunity in America and
many other nations.
As the policy disasters
launched by Neocon Globalists piled up, the Neocons were desperate for domestic
political allies. As a result, the "traditionalist" Neocons
accepted the systemic corruption of the Deep State by degenerate, predatory
self-serving elites and their enablers in the intelligence agencies, corporate
media and other nodes of power.
Arrayed against this completely
corrupt, degenerate camp of Neocon Globalists is a "nationalist" camp
within the Deep State that grasps the end-game of Neocon Globalism, and is busy
assembling a competing nation-centric strategy. There is tremendous resistance
to the abandonment of Neocon globalism, not just from those who see power
slipping through their fingers but from all those firmly committed to a magical
belief that past success guarantees future success, i.e. doing more of what's failed
will eventually succeed.
The "nationalist" faction
within the Deep State is gaining ground, and now a fracture in the Neocon camp
is threatening the Globalists: the "traditionalist" Neocons who accepted the
systemic corruption of self-serving elites are being challenged by "rogue
realists" who have finally awakened to the mortal danger posed by amoral
predatory self-serving elites.
The debauchery of morals
undermines the legitimacy of the state and thus of the entire power structure. As I recently
noted in Following in Rome's Footsteps: Moral Decay, Rising Inequality (June
29, 2019), America's current path of moral decay is tracking Rome's collapse
step for step.
Having enabled and used amoral
predators like Epstein, the "traditionalist" Neocons are forced to
defend the debauched and now toxic "Liberal" defenders of the Neocon
Globalist Project. That they will stop at nothing is already obvious, but
what's less obvious is their opponents, the "rogue realists" who
understand that empires fall not from external enemies but from internal
corruption and debauchery, are willing to take whatever steps are necessary to
save the Republic from the self-serving elites that have infiltrated key nodes
of Deep State power.
The final fracture is within
the "rogue realists": one camp still believes in the Neocon Globalist Project,
and simply wants to rid the Deep State of the debauched predators and their
protectors. The other camp sees the two as inextricable: the Neocon Globalists
are as hopelessly amoral and corrupt as the very worst they are protecting. The
only way to fix the mess is to clean house by getting rid of the debauched
predators and the amoral Neocon Globalists.
The "rogue realists" are
attempting to use the judicial system to bring down the predatory self-serving
elites, but given Epstein's "mysterious" end, it appears the
Department of Justice is also infiltrated with those willing to do whatever
it takes to protect the amoral, self-serving predators and their enablers.
This raises the issue that destroys democracies: who investigates the
investigators? The "traditionalist" Neocons are going to have
to decide to fish or cut bait: either swirl down the sewer by protecting
everyone in Epstein's black book and stash of videos, or clean house before
they lose it all.
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