The corporations are getting richer, average Americans are getting poorer, the military is getting more militaristic, America’s endless wars are getting more endless, and the prospect of peace grows ever dimmer. This is exactly how you keep the Deep State in power.
Trump is a Tool of the Deep State Not a Victim
― Theodore Roosevelt
There are those who would have you believe that President Trump is an unwitting victim of the Deep State.
And then there are those who insist that the Deep State is a figment of a conspiratorial mind.
Don’t believe it.
The Deep State—a.k.a. the police state, a.k.a. the military industrial complex, a.k.a. the surveillance state complex—does indeed exist and Trump, far from being its sworn enemy, is its latest tool.
When in doubt, follow the money trail.
It always points the way.
Every successive president starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt has been bought—lock, stock and barrel—and made to dance to the tune of the Deep State.
Even Dwight…
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
Dr. Bramhall, Tom Engelhardt has made the same analysis in his latest book, A Nation Unmade by War. He refers to the “National Security State” as “the de facto fourth branch of government.” Our democracy quietly passed away while we were out shopping and racking up our credit card debt.
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Now Rosaliene, Tubularsock will gladly give up democracy so as to shop until Tubularsock drops for the correct hair product! Cost is no object when you use credit!
It’s the American way!
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Tube, I confess to a powerful desire to get hold of Trump’s hair and fix it for him.
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Cool. Sounds like an interesting book, Rosaliene. I’ll have to have a look.
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trump IS the deep state
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And nomad, Dump is also Deep Shit which goes with the territory.
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And here was me, nomad, thinking he was just a greedy, crooked billionaire.
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Well, he is the art of the deal. He probably cut a deal with them so they wouldnt assassinate him like they seemed to have been planning.
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