Not that the above commenter is reading anymore, but I just noticed something:
I'm guessing they were spooked by the "deep state" reference, and all the alt-right/conspiratorial baggage it seems to imply. Actually, I tend to ignore that community entirely, so I wasn't thinking in terms of their paranoid drivel at all. But rather the far more mundane sense of a "national security establishment" as it used to be called, or "institutional government" in the sense of authors like David Rohde.
Which is why I meant it's something whose existence is perfectly obvious (and hence not needing any kind of source to substantiate) -- every working state has one to some degree. And in the US, that sector is of course very significant. And another indication of the basic (and basically obvious) point I was making that power and corruption in the US are decentralized, and not strongly tilted to any one group or flavor.
Especially not its oligarchs. The US is certainly corrupt and dysfunctional, but it's not banana republic.
So if they thought I was going to indulge them with some kind of predictable alt-right take on the subject, it's only natural for them to be disappointed.
It’s a crackpot theory that doesn’t rate discussion - I was a federal employee for 17 years. You have no clue what you’re talking about and aren’t worth the effort.
A professional bureaucracy is a hallmark of centrally planned economies - which ALL economies that see property as real eventually turn into
This is invariant of what a system decides to call itself
The US government looks exactly like the CCP and USSR in practice
I'm guessing they were spooked by the "deep state" reference, and all the alt-right/conspiratorial baggage it seems to imply. Actually, I tend to ignore that community entirely, so I wasn't thinking in terms of their paranoid drivel at all. But rather the far more mundane sense of a "national security establishment" as it used to be called, or "institutional government" in the sense of authors like David Rohde.
Which is why I meant it's something whose existence is perfectly obvious (and hence not needing any kind of source to substantiate) -- every working state has one to some degree. And in the US, that sector is of course very significant. And another indication of the basic (and basically obvious) point I was making that power and corruption in the US are decentralized, and not strongly tilted to any one group or flavor.
Especially not its oligarchs. The US is certainly corrupt and dysfunctional, but it's not banana republic.
So if they thought I was going to indulge them with some kind of predictable alt-right take on the subject, it's only natural for them to be disappointed.