kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 2:26 pm
Feel free to call it a conspiracy theory, if you want to. But lack of political will to prosecute is a real thing. Altruistic letter of law prosecution is not real. Never has been.
We live in a country where the system and state is free to pursue charges and institute laws based upon a number of factors. And at the heart of it, those factors to prosecute are based upon the "opinion" of politically tied people. And their bosses. And their big donors. It's not just protecting Biden, BTW. Or limited to one side.
Kram, come on.....that is NOT the sales pitch for the Deep State, and you know it. You're full on gaslighting me here.
The sales pitch is: lifelong Republicans went after Trump to take him down, and are still trying to do it. And that there wasn't a Deep State in DC until Trump showed up. THAT is the pitch you and the other R suspects made, and continue to make. And now you have expanded the Deep State to also mean: "lifelong Republicans at the DoJ and FBI are actively protecting Democrats".
You, and they, have NEVER complained about the Deep State going after a Democrat. Never. Not once. Not one peep, ever. And you NEVER complained about this----not one time------before Trump showed up.
So don't try and come here and pretend like your Deep State complaints is about the protected 1%. If you asked ANYONE on the street what the Deep State meant? NO ONE would give the definition you are handing me here.
kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 2:26 pm
It's essentially the ruling class and then everyday people. The terminology gets derided because it's so heavily tied to Trump. But if you don't think there is a swamp, and it's populated by the whole political class, of every party, you're incredibly naive.
From small towns to DC. It exists. Look at the power structure in this country. Look at every presidential nominee for the past 60 years. Those are really our best and brightest? In my hometown, look at the family names that are and have been in office for years. I'm talking borderline special needs. Who are the land owners? Developers? Biggest donors? It's the same family names. Along those lines, systemic racism was deemed a conspiracy theory in the United States for decades too. Until people realized it was really happening. You don't think the same people who instituted that systemic racism aren't looking out for their other interests, at all times? Those people have the power and will gladly look the other way, even at a political "opponent," if it means improving/maintaining their own station.
To get along, you gotta go along.
This is what Hegel called "a night in which all cows are black". In other words: you're describing every government in every country since the formation of governments 1000's of years ago. This is not unique to America, and not unique to any form of government ever invented.
More to the point: you are fully in error in thinking that this is only a "Big Government" program. And you just mentioned what that looks like locally: the "good ol' boy governance" where the landed families with the right connections get the best economic opportunities...and those on the outside (I've experienced this personally) get the "you ain't from around here, are ya boy?" treatment.
