Why So Many Americans Believe In The Deep State

[DespicablePeep]

Strange how TS mocks deep state but acts as if NSA and Snowden never existed.

 

[AndroidRage]

The same people ridiculing the idea of a deep state, and conspiracies in general, are the same ones who believe Donald Trump conspired Vladimir Putin himself to steal the 2016 US Presidential election. They believe he is currently Putin's puppet and literally being controlled by the Kremlin. Yet conspiracies don't exist.

These people are unstable.

Moonlight is cold, and it kills things.....

 

[Lord Coke]

Interesting read from an aussie based in the USA on this topic. Basically it argues that there isn't a deep state but the very media that is meant to destroy that argument is actually helping perpetuate it.

Which is why it’s a bit of mystery why The New York Times ran it. To be sure, there is something titillating about the insider voice. But to offer the cloak of anonymity without demanding details about genuine resistance to Trump is to get the short end of the stick. More than that: it helps advance a conspiracy theory that not only misleads Americans about how their government functions, but helps wean them away from a reliance on fact-based reporting — very thing the Times was created to defend.


https://www.canberratimes.com.au/wo...deep-state-20180909-p502ng.html?crpt=homepage

Because it exists and the corporate media is in on it.

 

[Hit-N-Run]

Funny how the "Deep State" discussion was a more of a crack pot theory until Trump got into office. It's the right-wing propaganda machine that feeds the fires of lunacy.

 

[Scheme]

Funny how the "Deep State" discussion was a more of a crack pot theory until Trump got into office. It's the right-wing propaganda machine that feeds the fires of lunacy.

Feel free to explain why we are in so many wars that our own country suffers, yet virtually none of the actual population supports war?

 

[HunterSdVa29]

I mean do yall know anybody that works for the NSA, CIA, or FBI?

have you heard of the patriot act?
have you seen which corporations specifically own every single major media outlet?

it's not that complicated man

 

[Hit-N-Run]

Feel free to explain why we are in so many wars that our own country suffers, yet virtually none of the actual population supports war?

Feel free to explain what wars you are referring to. The only wars that had significant numbers of the population against it were Vietnam and Iraq. Other then that wars have generally been supported

We're in wars because we are a war like people. We elect leaders that make decisions to go to war. Simple as that.

 

[MusterX]

Feel free to explain what wars you are referring to. The only wars that had significant numbers of the population against it were Vietnam and Iraq. Other then that wars have generally been supported

We're in wars because we are a war like people. We elect leaders that make decisions to go to war. Simple as that.

Manufactured consent in most cases.

 

[curryjunkie]

Aren't the libertarians commonly considered 'right-ish'? Seems like the 'deep state' concepts have been more focussed on in that group more-so than the mainstream right or left.

yea but as part of the voting share they are miniscule, and the "independents" are former conservatives who cant bring them selves to vote democrat

 

[superpunch]

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[D 1 Wrestler]

Are mega corps really deep state? I mean it's no secret the Northrup Grumman's of the world would happily push for a new war or increased military spending

 

[superpunch]

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