by James Corbett corbettreport.com July 14, 2024 Well, it's official: the geriatric husk of a man occupying the Oval Office is in fact not the "leader of the free world." Of course, everyone with their head screwed on straight already knew this, which is precisely why the MSM liars have been...
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Long-time readers of this column will know that the revelation of the deep state that we are now witnessing did
not begin this month. In fact, it has been going on for at least a decade now, as I documented in my 2016 editorial on "
Deep State Rising":
[. . .] [A]n odd phenomenon has taken place in recent years and intensified in recent months: the idea of a "deep state" or a "shadow government" controlling politics, even in the US, is becoming mainstream.
It has graced the cover of any number of recent books, including "
Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry" and "
The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government."
It has found its way into the online political media from both the left (
Salon) and the right (
The American Conservative) ends of the controlled political spectrum.
It has been
invoked by mainstream financial analysts to describe the actions of the Federal Reserve.
It has been revisited by Bill Moyers
on his website.
It has found its way into the headlines of
The Boston Globe ("
Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change") and
The New York Times ("
America’s ‘Establishment’ Has Embraced ‘Deep States’").
Heck, it has even been talked about on the
World Bank's blog.
Yes, the term "deep state" entered the MSM's vocabulary about a decade ago and has been around ever since, finding its way into various editorials and think pieces and books and blogs and TV chat shows.
Of course, we conspiracy realists and researchers know the
real history of the term. We know that the term "deep state" is derived from the Turkish term
derin devlet. We know that the term entered Turkish political dialogue after the
Susurluk incident exposed what many in Turkey had long suspected: a behind-the-scenes network of politicians, military officers, bureaucrats, intelligence agents and organized criminals wielded the
real political power in the country, not the nominal government in Ankara.
We also know that the "deep state" idea made the jump into English thanks to the work of scholars and speakers like
Peter Dale Scott and
Phillip Giraldi, whose diligent research (and mainstream credibility) ensured that mainstream media had to at least
address the idea.
Back in 2016, I was content to identify the phenomenon of the popularization and legitimization of the deep state idea and to ask readers to speculate on why this was taking place. But now we have the answer.
If you pay attention, you'll notice it everywhere these days. "Of course Biden isn't really running the country! That's childish thinking. Instead, it's a team of serious, competent, cognitively unimpaired professionals, lifelong bureaucrats and top-ranking aides who know the system and can make things work behind the scenes."
This leads predictably enough to the next part of this Problem-Reaction-Solution dialectic: "Yes, of course the deep state exists. And it's a
good thing!"
Indeed, the narrative about the deep state is now following the same pattern that the narrative surrounding every piece of conspiracy reality follows. To wit:
First: "It's not real. It's NOT real. IT'S NOT REAL! You're a tinfoil conspiracy looney wingnut and you live in your mom's basement and eat lead paint if you think it's real."
Then: "
Of course it's real, and it's a good thing!"
We've seen it happen with the "conspiracy theory" that the US government is collaborating with Al Qaeda and other terrorists. We've seen it happen with the "conspiracy theory" about chemtrails. And now we're seeing it happen with the "conspiracy theory" about the deep state.
Quite an effective psyop, isn't it? So effective, in fact, that most of the population won't even notice that the revelation has occurred. They will just enter it into their political calculus as if it's always been there.
Either: "Yeah! Let's vote in Trump so he can kick out the deep state!" Or: "We need the deep state to protect us from this rogue president!" (You'll note that "rogue president" could refer to either Trump
or Biden depending on your political orientation on the fake, controlled left/right political spectrum.)
So, to recap: The deep state is now being officially acknowledged. The idea that the president is
not running the country is being normalized. People are being prepared to admit that the idea that they're really (s)electing one man to run the country every four years is a childish fairy tale that never really made sense.
In other words: the emperor is wearing no clothes.
Now, there's just one last part to this fable before the story is over . . .
