(I posted a comment on the Disqus forum on this article - "An excellent article, sir - especially for PERSPECTIVE! It will be distributed and added to my archive for future reference.
I particularly appreciated the conclusion - DaDeepState will ultimately fail because they are being exposed. My own concern is that if they are successful in deposing Trump as president and thus reversing the results of last year's election - it will be a short term victory for the perps and which will likely lead to some major consequences - including the very real possibility of civil war.
DaGenie ain't going back into the bottle!" - CL)
I particularly appreciated the conclusion - DaDeepState will ultimately fail because they are being exposed. My own concern is that if they are successful in deposing Trump as president and thus reversing the results of last year's election - it will be a short term victory for the perps and which will likely lead to some major consequences - including the very real possibility of civil war.
DaGenie ain't going back into the bottle!" - CL)
The term "Deep State" unleashes many paranoid
fantasies. Movies and spy stories abound about the existence of dark,
nefarious forces from our government aligned against us. But as Joseph
Heller once wrote, "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't
after you." One of the more disturbing revelations after Trump's win
was finding that these dark forces not only exist, but are powerful and
seemingly out of control.
"Deep
State" is hard to define, because it is composed of overlapping groups and
individuals with complex and differing agendas. It's an amalgam of people,
agencies, and bureaucrats that changes. The current leakers are part of
it. For now, let's say it's a mostly unelected, mostly leftist group
within our government that wants to govern us against the will of America's
founding principles. These people want the final say over our
Republic. They want to rule, and they form part of a powerful alliance
against the current administration and its voters. The one thing we can
be thankful for is that they are showing themselves to us in a way that should
anger Americans of all political persuasions. In the end, that's what we
might hope for.
"Big
Brother" was the term Orwell used for the totalitarian presence of 1984.
We are not there. Maybe not even close. But the problem of
the Deep State is that there seem to be those who want the kind of power Orwell
described, the kind of power the Soviets had, or the East Germans. It's
likely that many Deep-Staters don't even realize just how power-mad they have
become.
Here
is a small list with their fingerprints on it:
-
The unmasking and subsequent takedown of General Michael Flynn
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The daily leaks designed to impede or embarrass the Trump administration
-
The unmasking of hundreds of private citizens working with the Trump campaign
as reported by Circa News
-
The bogus "Trump dossier"
-
The bogus Trump-Russian collusion narrative.
-
The unseemly collusion between Robert Mueller and James Comey
-
The seeming insanity of Mueller probing a nonexistent crime
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The exoneration of the Clinton crime family
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The IRS targeting conservative groups
And
lots more.
What
we are watching is a group using power willfully, wrongfully, and oftentimes
illegally to undermine and destroy political opponents. They are after
somebody. For real. From this list, we can surmise that their
opponents appear to be those of us on the center-right. And to those of
you on the left who don't know: This happened, and it's happening. You
can pretend it's not so, but it is.
Okay,
some of you are tuning out. This can't happen here, it's tinfoil hat
stuff, the left really isn't that bad, you're being overly paranoid, blah,
blah, blah. Sorry, but this is seriously bad stuff.
I
recall back when the PATRIOT Act was passed, noting a comment by Glenn Reynolds
of Instapundit. He said powers to surveil, and powers that could cross
the lines of the bad guys' civil liberties, were well and good, but in the
wrong hands, those powers could and would be misused.
Well,
he was right. At the time, I considered his fears over the top, but I was
wrong. The history of the human race is littered with tyrants who
concentrated and misused power. The genius of the American system adopted
by the founding fathers was limiting and decentralizing government in a way to
protect our citizenry against this kind of tyranny. Systems were put in
place to check, balance, and limit the things that could be done by the
government against its people. The Bill of Rights is directed at that
problem. These rights were called inalienable, the natural and normal
rights given to us by God, not by our government. These were to be our
birthright as a nation. It's one of the many reasons our country has been
great and can be great again.
We
have had bad players in our government, we have made lots of mistakes and done
wrong things as a nation, but what we are seeing played out now is simply
unprecedented. There is a quote attributed to Valerie Jarrett, Obama
adviser-enforcer and all-around bad human, that goes like this:
After
we win this election, it's our turn. Payback time. Everyone not
with us is against us, and they better be ready, because we don't forget.
The ones who helped us will be rewarded; the ones who opposed us will get
what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won't
be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is
over.
Let
me say, there is no proof she said this. But one thing that is real for
sure is that much of what they did in that administration, with her help, was
to institutionalize those ideas as their operating manual. The IRS
scandal targeting conservative donors and conservative organizations was a
perfect example. Read the horrifying story in Forbes of what happened to
Catherine Engelbrecht if you think this didn't happen. A terrible line
had been crossed. Had she been a liberal, we would hear her name for
forty years or more.
This
was just the tip of the iceberg. The left has weaponized the
bureaucracies and agencies it inhabits. Leftists have decided they will
become the dominant culture in the CIA, FBI, NSA, IRS, EPA, and the rest of our
bureaucracies. They decided it's okay to be totalitarian, it's okay to
break the law, it's okay to go after their political opponents with the force
of government, it's okay because they are the ones who deserve to win.
The Deep State running rampant is fine, as long as they run it. From
Valerie Jarrett to Barack Obama to James Clapper and James Comey, they all
visibly overstepped their rightful boundaries. They are proof of the
saying that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Make
no mistake: the prior administration went rampant. The Deep State did not
originate with them, but they stocked it with their cronies. They stocked
it with people of similar left-leaning ideas, with similar left-leaning
willingness to misuse power. The Deep State became a weapon of
intimidation and a deep abuser of power. Thank God Hillary was not there
to take the baton.
So
here we are, with the Deep State running amok. They are aligned with the
Obamap-Clinton machine; they are generally in sync with the Obama-Clinton
goals. None of us knows exactly how this works, who sets the agenda, or
who has the capacity to give direction, but it is real. We do know that
many of the media are there to help, we do know that most of the Democratic
Party apparatus is there to help, and we do know some of the players. We
also know that most of the Democrat base, and many of the party's voters, are
naïvely on board, too. We may not understand the mechanism, but we do
know that the Deep State has become the vanguard of the left's civil war, and
it is not fictional.
They
are self-motivated with a set of goals. Get rid of Trump if they can.
Get Trump's base to be embarrassed of him or depressed if they can. Make
certain that Trump cannot succeed. Make certain his hands are tied in
ways to make him less effective. If nothing else, slow his progress to a
snail's pace while they marshal better forces.
The
stupid party (Republicans), as usual, has no clue. Too many Republicans
just think this is normal or haven't the stomach to fight. Heck, many of
them are traitorously helping to take down what their own voters and
standard-bearer want to achieve. The Democratic Party is fractured and
has no idea how wrong this is (yet), and it only helps parrot the talking
points of its Deep State allies. Democrats have no idea of the backlash
they are creating toward themselves.
There
is no distinct winner at this point. But the battle is joined. It
is clear that the Deep State intends to continue using all its power to stop
Trump, and to prevent a return to checks and balances and limited government.
One
important note: they are not winning. The media may
make it appear that they are, but they're not. Trump, his administration
and allies, and his voting base intend on continuing the fight and
winning. This is the major part of "draining the swamp."
The battle is in the balance, will last for years, and there are a lot of
reasons to believe that the Deep State will lose. One of the great
unintended consequences of Trump's win: They have been unmasked.
Push
back hard enough, and they will lose.
They
deserve to.
