The deep state.

Posted by Pointman on July 29, 2017 · 20 Comments 

There’s a new term that’s come into common usage over the last year – the deep state. Depending on who you speak to, the meaning of it slides from the darkly malevolent to the mundane. Some imagine it to be a cabal of rich and powerful people who have all politicians of whatever leaning in their pockets and therefore are the master puppeteers pulling the strings behind the scenes and running governments, if not whole nations.

At the other end of the only mildly paranoid scale, it’s considered just a more dramatic term for what is usually called the establishment, but increasingly it’s the former and more extreme shade of meaning that’s becoming the agreed one.

It’s not hard to see why this should be so, because since the election of Trump, there does seem to be a concerted effort from all sides to depose him by any means possible. Not only do you have his nominal opposition, the Democrat party, after him, but seemingly a large proportion of the Republican party congressmen quietly determined to stymie any significant legislation he’s trying to get passed.

When you add in a uniformly hostile media who do nothing but churn out fake news and manufactured scandals in an effort to get rid of him, it does begin to appear as if there’s some hidden force behind the scenes orchestrating the whole campaign.

The appearance of the term a year ago does seem to match up with the timing of Trump becoming a serious threat to such a cabal. They’d bought and paid for their marionette candidate Clinton, the GOP were fielding the usual anodyne losers, and the media were bending over backwards to get her elected, even if she was commonly distrusted if not outright disliked by large numbers of the ordinary voters, even by many in her own party.

Suddenly it seemed as if the ass fell out of the usual plan of foisting the least despised politician on America with the unexpected appearance of Trump on the scene, so the dark forces all swung into action to prevent him winning at any cost. Against all the opposition, the opinion polls, the whole massed ranks of the mass media and the expert predictions that turned out to be complete rubbish, he did go on to win the presidency.

That unexpected result caught a lot of people with their trousers around their ankles.

It does all come together to make a decent conspiracy theory, but while there are definite elements of a nebulous deep state in action, I think the answer is a lot more prosaic. There is a conspiracy of sorts there between a lot of diverse interests, but it’s only because they all face the common threat of being destroyed by Trump. It’s more of an unspoken mutual survival pact between strange bedfellows rather than a full-blooded conspiracy.

The democrats were always going to hate him because he’s driven a coach and horses straight through their supposedly winning strategy of ignoring ordinary people and concentrating on irrelevant fringe but emotive issues which were only of importance to the more enlightened liberals amongst us. Basically, they only talked to the swing voter last year, and that’s why they lost. Trump did something entirely different.

The so-called politics of identity; about being black, about being female, about being gay, about being Muslim, about being lesbian, about being a hermaphrodite, about being any vanishing small demographic in an America that’s still overwhelmingly white and Christian is a political strategy that’s now dead in the water.

Despite the impression you might have received from TVland, the percentage of people in America who don’t have a pink ass comes in at about 12-13%. I’m sure there’ll be howls of racism at the foregoing statements, but data is data I’m afraid no matter how confronting, if not outright threatening you might find it to your comfort zone. Your surprise at that statistic is a product of your conditioning over the last decade or so.

Every ensemble cast program you watch nowadays will always be fully multi-racially stocked and increasingly the token white person thrown in is a cardboard stereotype. She’s usually a ditz or if it’s a bloke, he was the one at the back of the line when God was handing out street smarts.

What’s important is the never mentioned number of people in that non-pinky assed demographic who voted for Trump, because they were so fed up at being treated like field slaves whom their benevolent massa in the form of the Democratic party was promising to promote to house slaves, just as long as they’d vote for them.

We all know about such promises. One day, some day, soon, very soon, really, very very soon, seriously, very soon.

Never.

That promotion never seemed to happen, except for a few house trained one or two of the blacks who showed a ready appetite for corruption. The whole narrative was they were white-abused victims who were incapable of looking after themselves unless they and their children and all the generations following them were “helped” into a welfare dependency for the rest of their natural born lives.

Those black Americans, having seen what Trump’s already done for job creation, especially because they’re the ones who actually need real bloody jobs, will vote GOP just as long as Trump is leading it and actually keeps on getting things done.

They’re fed up with all mouth and trousers types whose fine words somehow always end up doing absolutely nothing for them, except stroking their victimhood for the happenstance of being born into a minority. Everybody goes home from the revival tent feeling energised but year after year, nothing actually ever changes.

The house nigga Obama cashes in on his presidency by giving $350,000 a pop speeches to the great and good of a Wall Street that he let off scott free after the crash of 2008, and then sells his memoirs for $50 million. The rest of his time he spends on holiday with his billionaire pals like Richard Branson on their privately owned islands, sipping on Daiquiris while he snipes at his successor. Eventually, pennies do start to drop, even if you’re black.

From whichever way you look at it, the Democratic party in the aftermath of the Trump victory and their quite frankly irrational behaviour in the months since, is in a terrible state.

They’re starting to beg their former foot soldiers for dollars to keep going because they’ve lost the big bucks. After managing to screw up what was supposed to be a shoo in election and looking like it’ll be a lot more years until they might win one, their former Wall Street bulge bracket donors have abandoned them with the same speed as the Clinton Foundation slammed its doors shut after last year’s disaster.

Money talks, bullshit walks, especially when it comes to corruption, no matter how subtly it’s being done.

As a political party, they’ve lost their way. They no longer have a message, a key, a way into speaking to an America whose attitudes are changing fundamentally, and until they recognise that, they’ll stay in the political wilderness. The entrenched and arthritic leadership of the party seem incapable of seeing that.

The old way of doing business is simply bouncing off an America which has become heartily sick of supposedly accepting always being in the wrong, of forever being intimidated into feeling guilty, of perennially being in the back of the handouts line and not living up to unrealistic expectations that have no practical relevance on God’s good green Earth to any facet of their lives.

The Republicans mostly support him, but there’s always an element of them doing so through gritted teeth, because they see him as some kind of monster they’ve no control of and therefore to be feared. He financed his own campaign himself, accepting no corporate donations, which is to say not accepting bribes. He’s not a bought man and not beholden to any of them.

From their snobby viewpoint, he’s simply not political gentry, but then again he simply doesn’t give a shite what a bunch of irrelevant yesterday’s men think of him. Why should he? He’s beaten them at every turn.

With every day, he gets stronger and stronger, and they by their lukewarm support of him look increasingly like wild animals caught at night time in the onrushing headlights of the Trump bulldozer tearing a swathe across the old political landscape.

They waste copious amounts of time figuring out a way of handling him, of reasserting a control over him they never actually had in the first place, and all the time he’s at least two jumps ahead of them. They’re nominally his party, but with next year’s mid term election, he’ll finally squeeze out the old guard and anyone left who still think there’s a safe path to tip toe through between Trump and the old party dinosaurs who hate him.

By next year and by his deliberate intention, no such path will exist.

The comfortable phoney war that’s always existed between the two parties was finally recognised by an electorate in last year’s election, and they voted accordingly for a real change candidate who spoke of those traditional things like jobs, security, family, country and God forbid being proud of being an American.

Each and every one of those things had gradually been inched into some sort of shame zone by a media which lived in a complete world of its own, but none of those things have ever gone away in the common psyche of America. Unlike gender-free toilets, they are the important eternals of life, whether currently in vogue or not.

Trump was astute enough to know that the only way to win was to completely bypass a hostile media who were in the business of disrespecting such fundamentals by going directly via social media to a manifestly unrepresented demographic he knew was still there and would vote for someone genuinely addressing those concerns. It’s basic thinking, for God’s sake. Sorry, I mentioned the G word again.

At the same point, he set his mind to destroying the most egregious elements of that media, and he’s largely succeeded. The sight of 40,000 boy scouts at their jamboree last week chanting “CNN sucks” while he was addressing them was always the endgame he’d designed, and I think the media sort of recognised early on how much of a threat he was to their comfortable existence.

That was enough for them to buddy up with anyone, absolutely anyone who’d fight Trump.

And they chummed up with anyone and everyone, Islamic extremists, vagina costumed feminists, anti-semites, murderous BLM types, masked street thugs and basically every minority that in its own way took pride in giving some sort of deep offense to a silent mainstream America, which all played into Trump’s hand of marginalising the lot of them.

The Democrats, in managing to let themselves get welded to such irrelevant but largely transient political flotsam, are doing themselves an amount of damage that will take years to repair.

There is no deep state, but there are certainly a lot of jaded old institutions playing catchup with a rapidly changing public sentiment and doing extremely badly at that activity. Add in the loonies on the fringe who were overly indulged by the previous administration, and there’s a lot of basic fear pretending to be loathing swirling around the White House.

The world has had it up to their armpits with identity politics and are going back to basics. It’s a second grand extinction of the liberal dream. The first one happened in the eighties and it was all about reconstructing society under the guise of helping the poor, but this one was more diverse because all those poor are still there and still shit poor, so even they won’t buy that particular story. The second liberal dream time is crumbling, and the nightmare has only just begun, to misquote the Carpenters.

It worked to his Satanic vices all along to let them poke away at him for all these past months without reply, but having watched him from afar, I think the deep state or whatever it’s called must reach an accommodation with him or he’ll destroy it completely. Substantially, he already has. They’re his bitches now.

After months of congressional hearings that’ve gone absolutely nowhere, and since they’ve exhausted themselves and any credibility they ever had trying to scale a wall of nothing burgers, I suspect he’s finally decided the timing is right to start the counter offensive. They’re jaded and in disarray, so it’s the perfect moment for the hearings and investigations of them to begin.

It’ll take a year or two, but be in no doubt, there will be blood on the floor of Congress.

©Pointman

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