• femicrat [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Once you know that power protects itself like this, this kind of thing stands out like a neon sign.

    Remember how Michael Moore went from accusing the deep state of complicity in 9/11 to openly rooting for the deep state to overthrow the President?

    Mike Lofgren, a congressional staff member for 28 years, joins Bill Moyers to talk about what he calls Washington's "Deep State," in which elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests. "It is how we had deregulation, financialization of the economy, the Wall Street bust, the erosion or our civil liberties and perpetual war," Lofgren tells Moyers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYS647HTgks

    They calmly discuss things and he has described our current reality perfectly. Millions have seen evidence like this and come to their own conclusions. Of course WaPo is going to continue to call them "conspiracy theories" - it's the only weapon they've got. What are they going to do, calmly discuss it?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      Remember how Michael Moore went from accusing the deep state of complicity in 9/11 to openly rooting for the deep state to overthrow the President?

      No, because he melted out of relevance in the transition. His last big hit was the movie where he set up a flotilla of Floridians to visit Cuba in search of health care.

      After that, he basically dropped off the map.