What is it? Who is in it? Where is their secret mountain lair?
This topic is a place where I can collect examples which support the conclusion that there is a deep state. What is a deep state? Basically it's corruption, but when people think of corruption they think of a bunch of embezzlers out for themselves and not interacting with each other nor trying to strike back against those trying to expose them.
I am talking about an informal conspiracy to continue and expand mass theft and global domination of a power bloc (as run by these corrupt elites and which benefits them). This is associated in propaganda to a post-WW2 vision of the united states as the sole global superpower with a dark and menacing enemy in the form of Russia or China (whoever can be more easily painted as such at the time).
These people are not all cookie cutters of each other. Some are wrong. Some are evil. Some are evil and wrong. Besides when you dig into it there isn't all that much of a difference between being wrong and being evil. A more telling difference is that some think they are sacrificing the truth for the greater good, and some know they don't give a shit about the 'commoners' because they're too stupid to be trusted with the truth anyway.
There are things that the deep state wants as a whole and any nation, group, or individual who threatens those things finds themselves on the losing end of a really inexplicable amount of "bad luck". Take Donald Trump or Julian Assange for example. After practically his whole life of purportedly committing crimes he finally faces justice only now. What a coincidence? Julian Assange, on the run from the 'rules based international order' (the deep state) for the grand and heinous crime of publishing secrets, an activity which at least in the US is protected by constitutional amendment.
Wherever he went to escape somehow criminal charges appeared. What a coincidence that someone who threatens the secrets of the deep state is a rampaging rapist in Sweden but never before and also lacking evidence. What did Trump apparently do? Well besides all the evil in the world? Rape too? Wow. Something about these people who stand in the way of the deep state. They're just so rapey.
This subject is one of those where the evidence is extremely volumous but very diffuse. It's easy for skeptics to poke fun at people because it's a very broadly defined phenomenon with a thousand different smoking guns, each of which could be attributed to something localized. It takes a constant long term exposure to integrate it all and see the larger pattern.
If I were to give a historical analogy it would be the colonization of the Americas by Europeans. Unlike many I don't believe there was ever once a direct conspiracy of any size or seriousness that planned for genocide. Much of what happened happened because the european way of life allowed for greater population density and corresponding resource utilization. The way europeans lived was generally safer and more comfortable. This erodes neighboring cultures which are inferior in these fields either by attracting 'converts' or winning a war started to maintain the low efficiency use of the land.
Yet there was another aspect too, the part that is analogous to the deep state. Somehow every treaty involving the demarcation of land 'evolved' to be a shell of itself. Sovereignty turned to becoming a corrupt creature of the BIA. Nations became reservations. Reservations shrunk.
One would need to search long and hard to find a treaty with a native political entity that was not broken by the US government. In each case there is an excuse, a pretext. "they broke it first, then we fought and renegotiated"
Yet it always seems to be the way right after a new wave of migration is approved. What a coincidence? Other than confession and intercepting communication the combination of coincidences until conspiracy is the least unlikely explanation are how conspiracies are found.
There never had to be a dark smokey room where they wrung their hands and planned to conquer the west and break all the treaties they made. All that was required was for a large class of people with power to know that there were others in power who had the same interests as they did. Single conspiracies aren't required when the plan is simple enough to be understood without them or when the plan can be communicated through smaller conspiracies. Like cells in a terrorist organization if the railroad tycoon and the army officer both want to kill a particular tribe of indians it can't be said that they were on a conspiracy with the BIA or the rest of the government in DC right?
Well when the government in DC doesn't stop them, interferes with those who try to stop them, and approves putting pressure to renegotiate to remove what's left of the tribe afterwards what does that prove?
It doesn't prove they planned it, but it does prove they wanted it. That was the deep state then. Now we have our own version. Human civilization will always have a deep state when the public will not tolerate the actions in the open. Much like the devil, the deep state is never more powerful then why people laugh at the idea of its existence.
