I am part of a class action EEO lawsuit against the federal government because I refused Biden's lawless order that I, to keep my federal employment, had to receive a vaccination that I objected to, due to the use of aborted human lives in the research to develop said vaccines. (At the time, I had no idea how catastrophically harmful the vaccines were.)
I've seen how orchestrated it was across agencies and the EEOC to wholesale deny standing and claims made by employees. There is an obvious cookie cutter response that the majority of us received denying our claims.
<<The relationship between the three layers is perfectly illustrated in the way pharmaceutical companies work. They do the bidding of the deep state with biodefense work that is classified, making both pathogens and antidotes. They work with the middle state, with board members and managers of companies going back and forth with the NIH and FDA, sharing royalties on new patented consumer products. The companies then dominate advertising on all the main media venues, which means that the media covers up for them at every turn and echoes deep and middle state priorities.>>
Academia is crucial in some ways to this. Successful grant applications lead to research projects that just happen to confirm the findings that fuel the commercial exploitation of the new 'discoveries' (and discoveries are critical because patents expire eventually).
The few pieces of research that cast doubt on the findings fail to be published at the leading edge due to the system of peer review or, if they make it through, are subjected to intense flak and ridicule. All of this was especially evident during the cronyvirus years (not that these have ended, as such).
A good read on this whole issue is Jeff Schmidt's Disciplined Minds, and the reception of this book and the aftermath is laid out at https://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/
I agree with you on this. My opinion is that 124 years of Progressive Politics have lead to the destruction of our country and the 17th Amendment destroyed the balance we had under the Constitution when we took away the rights of the states to move even more toward Central Government Federalism which even dated back to Lincoln and his handling of the Civil War.
Liberalism has failed—not because it fell short, but because it was true to itself. It has failed because it has succeeded. As liberalism has “become more fully itself,” as its inner logic has become more evident and its self-contradictions manifest, it has generated pathologies that are at once deformations of its claims yet realizations of liberal ideology. A political philosophy that was launched to foster greater equity, defend a pluralist tapestry of different cultures and beliefs, protect human dignity, and, of course, expand liberty, in practice generates titanic inequality, enforces uniformity and homogeneity, fosters material and spiritual degradation, and undermines freedom. Its success can be measured by its achievement of the opposite of what we have believed it would achieve. Rather than seeing the accumulating catastrophe as evidence of our failure to live up to liberalism’s ideals, we need rather to see clearly that the ruins it has produced are the signs of its very success. To call for the cures of liberalism’s ills by applying more liberal measures is tantamount to throwing gas on a raging fire. It will only deepen our political, social, economic, and moral crisis.
The beginnings of the deep state I think we’re in World War II with the rise of the Military Industrial Complex to fight the war. The deep state was then enshrined in the national security act of 1947 and he’s gained traction ever since.
There are a number of ways to look at it. Strictly speaking--i.e., speaking of the national security state that the US has become--WW2 was undoubtedly a major inflection point. You can also argue that earlier events paved the way, prepared for that inflection point. The progressive era and its advocacy for government by "experts"--and especially under Wilson (think of his draconian WW1 measures, the Espionage Act, etc.)--prepared for the New Deal administrative state and on to the national security state of security experts.
Auron MacIntyre calls for Republican officials across the country to go on a legal offensive against every corrupt Democrat within reach. The time for excuses is over. The time for action is now. Not for Trump, but for the sake of the country. Regardless of whether Trump is able (allowed to?) win the election, this won’t stop with him. The genie is out of the bottle. The only hope of putting it back into the bottle, is to produce consequences that makes the other side understand what they have done.
“Put bluntly, Republicans have to make Democrats play by their own rules. They have to inflict pain ruthlessly on Democrats with endless show trials and lawfare, just as Democrats have done to Trump. The leftist radicals who run the Democrat Party only understand power, and they will only stop when they are force-fed their own medicine over and over.”
I'm so angry over what was done to Trump I'd be banned by Mr. Wauck if I really spoke my piece. I can't believe that some people would throw out 200+ years of wisdom to get Trump. It's insane. Didn't these people learn when they eliminated the filibuster on judges and Trump consequently had three Supreme Court justices confirmed?
Whatever the Dems, press and Deep State have coming to them (if they even have any consequences to face), they richly deserve.
About three years ago, the USA allowed T-Mobile to purchase Sprint. Last week, T-Mobile entered into an agreement to buy US Cellular. This country loves one, two or three competitors.
Excellent piece by Tucker. I would only quibble with the absence of Academia (primary, secondary, and post-secondary) in his schema. On the one hand, Academia belongs to the Shallow State as part of the machinery of perception management (i.e., propaganda and indoctrination). But it also, especially “Higher Ed,” prepares and provides the personnel that staff all three layers.
Unless I misread, academia was included in the Shallow State in Tucker's schema. I agree that it occupies a crucial position as the 'replication' site for the rest of the structure.
While I realise his name is anathema, this was all outlined some years ago by Louis Althusser who referred to a complex of Ideological State Apparatuses. The media and academia are part of the vanguard. Backing this up if 'persuasion' isn't successful is the Repressive State Apparatus. The onslaught on free speech in much of the Anglosphere (and beyond) is a joint project of State coercive power with the 'softer' power of the institutions. These institutions survive regardless of who controls the State levers (if they really do, as DJT discovered).
It's Fascism pure and simple (and I realise that's a word thrown around very carelessly).
Yes. Karen, I occasionally wonder how it is (and has been) that certain elites can promote policies so superficially antithetical to their own advantage...
I have in mind, for example, the case of Bolshevism, especially with its component of terrorism. Bolshevism meant confiscation of private property, loss of status for many, loss of individual freedoms, including incarcerations, and, of course, executions. But, of course, it meant power and money for some.
The answer is that certain elites are confident that they can survive and prosper 'regardless of who (superficially) controls the State levers'. While the propaganda we consumed until the fall of the Soviet Union suggested that Russians were miserable (and many undoubtedly were miserable), was there not an elite which was quite comfortable under the system?
It is this hypocrisy, I think, which is so offensive to ordinary people who 'play by the rules'.
I read a long article this morning that does address academia from a somewhat different perspective--as the training ground for the clergy of the state religion. The article is far more wide ranging than that may sound and I want to present its ideas later, but it would certainly embrace the idea of academia preparing and providing personnel.
I am part of a class action EEO lawsuit against the federal government because I refused Biden's lawless order that I, to keep my federal employment, had to receive a vaccination that I objected to, due to the use of aborted human lives in the research to develop said vaccines. (At the time, I had no idea how catastrophically harmful the vaccines were.)
I've seen how orchestrated it was across agencies and the EEOC to wholesale deny standing and claims made by employees. There is an obvious cookie cutter response that the majority of us received denying our claims.
The Deep State is real.
<<The relationship between the three layers is perfectly illustrated in the way pharmaceutical companies work. They do the bidding of the deep state with biodefense work that is classified, making both pathogens and antidotes. They work with the middle state, with board members and managers of companies going back and forth with the NIH and FDA, sharing royalties on new patented consumer products. The companies then dominate advertising on all the main media venues, which means that the media covers up for them at every turn and echoes deep and middle state priorities.>>
Academia is crucial in some ways to this. Successful grant applications lead to research projects that just happen to confirm the findings that fuel the commercial exploitation of the new 'discoveries' (and discoveries are critical because patents expire eventually).
The few pieces of research that cast doubt on the findings fail to be published at the leading edge due to the system of peer review or, if they make it through, are subjected to intense flak and ridicule. All of this was especially evident during the cronyvirus years (not that these have ended, as such).
A good read on this whole issue is Jeff Schmidt's Disciplined Minds, and the reception of this book and the aftermath is laid out at https://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/
I agree with you on this. My opinion is that 124 years of Progressive Politics have lead to the destruction of our country and the 17th Amendment destroyed the balance we had under the Constitution when we took away the rights of the states to move even more toward Central Government Federalism which even dated back to Lincoln and his handling of the Civil War.
Yes. 17th amendment was definitely a key. Also the income tax. If you want to go back to the founding of our first ever liberal democracy ...
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2019/02/20/why-liberalism-failed/
Liberalism has failed—not because it fell short, but because it was true to itself. It has failed because it has succeeded. As liberalism has “become more fully itself,” as its inner logic has become more evident and its self-contradictions manifest, it has generated pathologies that are at once deformations of its claims yet realizations of liberal ideology. A political philosophy that was launched to foster greater equity, defend a pluralist tapestry of different cultures and beliefs, protect human dignity, and, of course, expand liberty, in practice generates titanic inequality, enforces uniformity and homogeneity, fosters material and spiritual degradation, and undermines freedom. Its success can be measured by its achievement of the opposite of what we have believed it would achieve. Rather than seeing the accumulating catastrophe as evidence of our failure to live up to liberalism’s ideals, we need rather to see clearly that the ruins it has produced are the signs of its very success. To call for the cures of liberalism’s ills by applying more liberal measures is tantamount to throwing gas on a raging fire. It will only deepen our political, social, economic, and moral crisis.
The beginnings of the deep state I think we’re in World War II with the rise of the Military Industrial Complex to fight the war. The deep state was then enshrined in the national security act of 1947 and he’s gained traction ever since.
There are a number of ways to look at it. Strictly speaking--i.e., speaking of the national security state that the US has become--WW2 was undoubtedly a major inflection point. You can also argue that earlier events paved the way, prepared for that inflection point. The progressive era and its advocacy for government by "experts"--and especially under Wilson (think of his draconian WW1 measures, the Espionage Act, etc.)--prepared for the New Deal administrative state and on to the national security state of security experts.
Auron MacIntyre calls for Republican officials across the country to go on a legal offensive against every corrupt Democrat within reach. The time for excuses is over. The time for action is now. Not for Trump, but for the sake of the country. Regardless of whether Trump is able (allowed to?) win the election, this won’t stop with him. The genie is out of the bottle. The only hope of putting it back into the bottle, is to produce consequences that makes the other side understand what they have done.
https://www.youtube.com/live/s8AGZ1Elh_Y?si=FhpP-T3aoivbKabd
See also John Yoo’s essay in National Review (of all places!):
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/05/trumps-trial-has-already-damaged-the-office-of-the-presidency/
“Put bluntly, Republicans have to make Democrats play by their own rules. They have to inflict pain ruthlessly on Democrats with endless show trials and lawfare, just as Democrats have done to Trump. The leftist radicals who run the Democrat Party only understand power, and they will only stop when they are force-fed their own medicine over and over.”
John Daniel Davidson
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/31/after-trumps-conviction-republicans-should-do-to-democrats-what-they-did-to-him/
I'm so angry over what was done to Trump I'd be banned by Mr. Wauck if I really spoke my piece. I can't believe that some people would throw out 200+ years of wisdom to get Trump. It's insane. Didn't these people learn when they eliminated the filibuster on judges and Trump consequently had three Supreme Court justices confirmed?
Whatever the Dems, press and Deep State have coming to them (if they even have any consequences to face), they richly deserve.
Here’s an otherwise apolitical YouTuber calling for the same thing:
https://youtu.be/cX36nryQXZU?si=jedJiZ7uYtxs9-RS&t=717
Good construct / model.
NGO’s are missing, and should be due to their incestrios relationship with the middle state.
Academia as the training ground makes sense.
The influence of oligarchs and fund raising / lobbying was not noted.
Along with lawfare. Sue and settle.
And how the left deliberately embeds people with civil service protection.
About three years ago, the USA allowed T-Mobile to purchase Sprint. Last week, T-Mobile entered into an agreement to buy US Cellular. This country loves one, two or three competitors.
We need trust busting.
Strangely,
The Biden Administration is doing more trust busting than has been been done for a while.
Unfortunately that’s the only positive thing I’m aware of they have done, and even that they don’t publicize.
Substack I follow:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/
Excellent article with the telling example of the pharmaceutical companies. "perception management" is also central for any form of State.
So unless the president is “captured” by the three-headed Leviathan, he or she will be powerless to change it or be destroyed in the process…
This has to be proven on the field.
Right, but frankly I think we’re way past half-time!
Excellent piece by Tucker. I would only quibble with the absence of Academia (primary, secondary, and post-secondary) in his schema. On the one hand, Academia belongs to the Shallow State as part of the machinery of perception management (i.e., propaganda and indoctrination). But it also, especially “Higher Ed,” prepares and provides the personnel that staff all three layers.
My 22 year-old nephew to be told me that college is a ripoff. He is wanting to go into a trade.
He's not the only young person who is waking up to the raw deal one gets from obtaining a four-year degree.
Unless I misread, academia was included in the Shallow State in Tucker's schema. I agree that it occupies a crucial position as the 'replication' site for the rest of the structure.
While I realise his name is anathema, this was all outlined some years ago by Louis Althusser who referred to a complex of Ideological State Apparatuses. The media and academia are part of the vanguard. Backing this up if 'persuasion' isn't successful is the Repressive State Apparatus. The onslaught on free speech in much of the Anglosphere (and beyond) is a joint project of State coercive power with the 'softer' power of the institutions. These institutions survive regardless of who controls the State levers (if they really do, as DJT discovered).
It's Fascism pure and simple (and I realise that's a word thrown around very carelessly).
I think it's pretty clear that governance in the West generally has evolved into a form of corporatism, i.e., Fascism.
For clarity, I understand corporatism to be where the government exists to serve the needs of the corporations. We’ve been there for decades now…
Yes. Karen, I occasionally wonder how it is (and has been) that certain elites can promote policies so superficially antithetical to their own advantage...
I have in mind, for example, the case of Bolshevism, especially with its component of terrorism. Bolshevism meant confiscation of private property, loss of status for many, loss of individual freedoms, including incarcerations, and, of course, executions. But, of course, it meant power and money for some.
The answer is that certain elites are confident that they can survive and prosper 'regardless of who (superficially) controls the State levers'. While the propaganda we consumed until the fall of the Soviet Union suggested that Russians were miserable (and many undoubtedly were miserable), was there not an elite which was quite comfortable under the system?
It is this hypocrisy, I think, which is so offensive to ordinary people who 'play by the rules'.
I read a long article this morning that does address academia from a somewhat different perspective--as the training ground for the clergy of the state religion. The article is far more wide ranging than that may sound and I want to present its ideas later, but it would certainly embrace the idea of academia preparing and providing personnel.
“training ground for the clergy of the state religion.”
Well put. Looking forward to your summary.