The state is well described in the Bible as a beast with many heads and horns, often at war with itself. It's big and brutish and quite lacking in intelligence, the very opposite of what many imagine the state to be. The glossy image of the state as something made by the people for the people is a deceptive lie peddled by the state who rely heavily on people accepting the social contract, also an invention of the state. The image presented is that of brave statesmen fairly elected by a concerned and well informed citizenry. However, the state is far more than just a handful of politicians at the helm. The state has a bureaucracy, and a set of owners often referred to as the deep state. These bodies don't change with elections. They are also the real entities in charge of the state, even when occasionally opposed by political outsiders.
All of this is well known, yet many people refuse to accept the existence of a deep state. The idea that the state is a privately owned institution where politicians rarely attain more than symbolic power is simply too sinister to accept. However, it's quite clear that it isn't the politicians themselves that draft laws and regulations. Such things are made by the bureaucracy in cooperation with corporate entities. The state is in this way a private extension of corporate interests.
Political outsiders only stand a chance when the bureaucracy and deep state are willing to cooperate. The outsider must have something to offer, like Hitler did in his time. Going up against the state with the intention to drastically reduce it, as Reagan tried to do, is doomed to failure, as he soon found out. The state is simply not interested in reducing its power. It's only interested in arrangements that benefit itself.
However, this doesn't mean that the bureaucracy and the deep state is well organized. Individuals fight each other for power at all levels. There's internal bickering inside departments, and bickering between departments. Individuals inside the deep state are likewise in competition with other individuals for the money and favours lavished onto the deep state by the bureaucracy. There's a huge marketplace for favours and kickbacks.
The deep state extends all the way out to passive owners of corporations. As a former shareholder in a large Norwegian publishing company I've seen this with my own eyes. There was never any shame in discussing openly among shareholders how the state could best be used to our advantage. Top level bureaucrats were mentioned by name as being either ours or somebody else's. Laws and regulations were always vetted by us and other publishers before implementation. Rarely was there any worry that the state would do things contrary to our interests. Political newcomers were vetted as to their usefulness. Those deemed troublesome were swiftly dealt with. Frozen out and isolated, they were quickly stripped of any power to do anything.
The deep state uses the state apparatus to crush competition. The deal being that of a protection racket. Corporations serve as convenient tax collecting structures in return for laws and regulations that favour the deep state. It's a feudal arrangement, and it will always be a feudal arrangement because the state is a feudal system. The political theatre present to the masses is but a varnish on the underlying mess in order to keep the masses under the impression that they are somehow in control of what's going on in the halls of power.
The only truly strange thing about this is the fact that so many still believe that the state is by the people and for the people, and that structural changes can come from political action. That has never been the case, and it will never be the case. A true outsider has absolutely no power over the state. Voting makes no difference. However, this goes both ways. The state has little power over true outsiders who chooses to live according to their own laws and regulations. Real change for the better is not far away. All it takes is a declaration of personal sovereignty, and a will to follow a plan.
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