Discussing the Deep State with Doc Malik

A recent podcast

Link to podcast: https://substack.com/@docmalik/p-206311832

This is the second part of a podcast I did with Doc Malik, discussing my book The Deep State Goes Viral, and related topics.

https://substack.com/@docmalik/p-206311832

Here’s the first half available for free on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/2mbvljQ_sbQ?is=qqG_B4wNsaVPCE1U

I think the best part, which Doc Malik highlights, is our discussion of what the “Deep State” is and what it is not.

Just yesterday, I was talking to a friend who insisted that we know President Trump is an enemy of the Deep State because they tried to destroy him with Russiagate etc. Here’s my explanation for why this is an incomplete understanding of how the Deep State operates:

The Deep State is not partisan. It is not beholden to a political party or an ideology. It is the source of the power and the money that are shaping the policy of the government and that do not come from elected officials or anywhere that the public has any influence over.

The Deep State is a cartel of financial institutions, global corporations, government agencies, military and intelligence alliances, and Silicon Valley. And it is all of these power entities acting together outside the bounds of the law and the Constitution in order to get more power and resources.

It’s not partisan; it’s not ideological; it’s not capitalism, socialism, Communism or any other ism, although it uses “globalism” to sound like it’s working in the world’s best interests. In fact, it is just a self-interested giant blob of very powerful entities working together to subvert our democratic and Constitutional rights.

This can be a confusing and complicated, because it’s much easier to say: We’re going to fire a bunch of bureaucrats and that’s how we’re going to drain the swamp. Or: The CIA was working against Trump, and that’s the Deep State. All the things that happened that were subverting Trump, like Russiagate — yes, that’s part of the Deep State playing games, and if they don’t want Trump, they’ll do things against Trump. If they don’t want Hillary or Kamala or somebody else, they’ll do stuff against them. But it doesn’t mean Trump is outside of Deep State influence. To the contrary, he is being used to corral a large part of the population into accepting the Deep State’s control and surveillance mechanisms.

What the Deep State really, really wants is for us to think that it’s the Democrats who are doing the bad stuff, or it’s the Republicans who are doing the bad stuff. That if we vote for Trump, he’s going to overthrow the Deep State, even though he is a complete tool of the Deep State. And the same goes for every other President, candidate or politician at this point in time.

So when Trump says I’m going to drain the swamp, or fight against the Deep State, it’s a joke — it’s funny, because it has absolutely no basis in reality. People want to believe that the public-facing puppets that are put in front of us as heroes, they’re the ones who are going to save us. But those people are there to manipulate us against each other.