"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion:the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases while the citizens may act only by permission:which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." Ayn Rand

this is what you get with anti-rational, anti-reason, anti-logic society...the beginnings of the totalitarian state...

There are people outside of Congress that pull the strings of the puppet Congress. These people use the hate and the egos and the prejudices of Congress to get what they want.

Permanent government bureaucracy is real and dangerous... Deep State is just one particularly nasty segment of it.

Oversight committees of elected officials is meaningless if it is expected it will provide protection of citizens against an over zealous state. Committee: "What are you doing?"
Bureaucracy: "Nothing."
Committee: "Can we have a cut?"
Bureaucracy: "Sure."
The only way to ensure behavior that does not encroach on any freedom is to not have any 'authorized' department that can take it away. Don't try to fix the Department of Education or give it direction by appointing a 'conservative' administrator. Eliminate it.

What we have is an uncontrolled, unelected bureaucracy, with not just survival, but utter, selfish self interest as their driving motivation. Like any corrupt entity, they engage in paranoid recognition that they would hang anyone else exercising power in the manner they do, and set about to destroy anyone who might hold them accountable.

The team of corrupt entities include members of the legal profession, who being aware of how far activist judges will bend the statutes in their favor, throw all legal principles out the window in pursuit of their political opposition. This isn't a swamp, but a sewer that needs serious cleaning.

Methinks our Republic first began to erode into a so-called one of those a long, long time ago when an elected official Sent To Serve The People at our nation's capital came to the realization: "Hey, I can make a career out of this."

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. BASTIAT

Obama and his hired help misused their power on an almost daily bais, band taxpayer dollars. Yes, he spied on Trump, he initiated the first FISA request, which was denied, as it stated Trump as target. how many foreign elections did he send people to influence? He used the office as his personal toy chest, with total disregard for the people footing the cost, black or white, no matter. Then he let in Soros, who is one of the major manipulators of people internationally, and a Fascist Hitler helper. Pelosi is in the same clique. They allow Big Pharma to keep cures for diseases from getting to the market, as treatment is more profitable. They use global warming, knwoing full well it does not exist, but it allows for more control of people. Deep State is real and rotten to the core.

The Deep State is deep, and deeper than we can know. It is very old, and impregnable. It is not even clear whether they are the good or bad guys. How do we even define what is bad? How do we know what ideas they have planted in us, even our ideas about them? Are they always successful? If their goal is social engineering of the whole human race, rather than achieving only their own self-interest, surely they have failed miserably many times throughout history. Two steps forward, one step back. How many individuals are there who pull the strings, ever invisible and unknown? Enough to be a critical mass. Like a black hole that holds and moves a galaxy. they pull all human endeavors into their orbit. Isaac Asimov's science fiction classic "Foundation" had a similar notion. So just sit back and watch.

When you say to yourself, "This doesn't make any sense, unless....."then you know you've just bumped up against what Rand Paul describes as the "deep state" the people who really run things or cause them to run. The first real glitch in their plans was putting Hillary up for president. The thing they failed to take into account is that they bought into their own propaganda. She is not the smartest of woman, sly, yes, smart, no. She's dumb as a box of rocks. Everything she's tried has failed. She doesn't know how to implement. She lies even when she doesn't need to. The election was pre-won, bought and paid for. She only lost through her own stupid actions. If it hadn't been for slick Willy, she'd currently be abscounding with the PTA funds and safely put away in jail where she will be preyed upon instead of preying on others. When Hillary went into self-destruct mode, Trump immediately saw the chink in the armor and set about spreading it open. He acted exactly opposed to her presentations, and the people, Suffering from the aridity of business as usual lapped up the Trumpisms like water from a mountain spring. But Trump is not deep state. They hate him more than Boubonic plague. Unfortunately he is too little too late. We've handed the USA over to the enemy many years ago in the '30's.

If the Gulch can't be created, then an uprising, aka Revolution maybe the only alternative of destroying the Deep State. Or, maybe secession if there are some very smart and shrewd governors who see that the federal gov't is turning into a Orwellian monster.

Read my new book, The Failed Experiment, Was Hamilton Right? See how the Deep State has always been a stumbling block in the Republic

The American people want this. They like it.

when i read only 8 people in congress know what they are doing i stopped reading. that is a contradiction, as far as i am concerned there is not ONE person in congress that knows what he/she is doing.
in reality what ever the the bad guys are doing it does not affect us little people.

Why don't politicians have powers over unelected national security people? How do we get them more power?