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Daniel Greenfield redefines the “Deep State” and it’s scary.
The full transcript of his speech to the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention
in Myrtle Beach is also posted at Zero Hedge (h/t Instapundit). Here are a few extracts:
the
Democrats have rejected our system of government
…
You can hate the
other party. You can think they’re the worst thing that ever happened to the
country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you
consistently reject the results of elections that you don’t win, what you want
is a dictatorship.
Your very own
dictatorship.
The only legitimate
exercise of power in this country, according to the left, is its own. Whenever
Republicans exercise power, it’s inherently illegitimate.
The attacks on Trump
show that elections don’t matter to the left.
. . .
It’s
the moving dictatorship. It’s the tyranny of the network.
You can’t pin it
down. There’s no one office or one guy. It’s a network of them. It’s an
ideological dictatorship. Some people call it the deep state. But that doesn’t
even begin to capture what it is.
To understand it, you
have to think about things like the Cold War and Communist infiltration.
A better term than Deep State is Shadow Government.
Parts of the Shadow
Government aren’t even in the government. They are wherever the left holds
power. It can be in the non-profit sector and among major corporations. Power
gets moved around like a New York City shell game. Where’s the quarter? Nope,
it’s not there anymore.
The
shadow government is an ideological network. These days it
calls itself by a hashtag #Resistance. Under any name, it runs the country.
Most of the time we don’t realize that.
. . .
Civil
wars swing around a very basic question. The most basic question of them all.
Who runs the country?
Is it me? Is it you?
Is it Grandma? Or is it bunch of people who made running the government into
their career?
America was founded
on getting away from professional government. The British monarchy was a
professional government. Like all professional governments, it was hereditary.
Professional classes eventually decide to pass down their privileges to their
kids.
America was
different. We had a volunteer government. That’s what the Founding Fathers
built.
This
is a civil war between volunteer governments elected by the people and
professional governments elected by… well… uh… themselves.
In the intro, Greenfield acknowledges and thanks “anyone and
everyone still fighting the good fight.” Including Tea Party
people volunteering in their communities. Read the rest here. # # #
