Lofgren: Anatomy Of The Deep State

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http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/

Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face.
Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry
in Rome. By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers,
carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the
marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and
Egypt; and the carts brought out nothing but loads of dung. That was
their return cargo. — The Martyrdom of Man by Winwood Reade (1871)

There is the visible government situated around the Mall in
Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable
government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to
tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional
Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public
watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via
elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep
State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless
of who is formally in power.
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