The Barbarian said in post #140:
The big deal is to make sure that everyone understands that the "deep state" is another term for "separation of powers."
Note that it isn't, for the separation of powers refers to the three Constitutional branches of government.
The d.s. is a fourth, unconstitutional branch which hides its activities from the other branches in the name of "secrecy" and "national security".
So, unlike with the three Constitutional branches of government, there are no "checks and balances" against the d.s.
It is a power unto itself.
This is what makes it so dangerous.
The Barbarian said in post #140:
The founders intentionally made the state deep to prevent any one person from taking power.
Note that the Founders knew nothing of the deep state, for it has set everything up for the future Antichrist's total surveillance and subjugation of everyone (Revelation 13:4-18).
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Ultimately, the power behind the future Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast") will be Lucifer/Satan (the dragon) (Revelation 13:4, Revelation 12:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:9), just as the controllers of the non-Christian world have always been (and are still currently) Satan and his fallen angels (Ephesians 6:12, Ephesians 2:2-3). But there could also be a secret cabal of human world leaders in big business, finance, intelligence agencies, federal law enforcement, politics, the media/entertainment, the military, and religion, who know this fact and so have secretly become worshippers of Satan in order to obtain from him all of the world's power, wealth, and pleasures that they can (cf. Matthew 4:9).
These Satanists could have been working secretly together for some time (including through a worldwide secret society which teaches Gnostic Luciferianism, also called Satanism, at its highest degree of initiation) to prepare the way politically, economically, culturally, militarily, and religiously for a single Satanist human world leader (the Antichrist) to take hegemony over the whole earth (Revelation 13:7b), and, along with his miracle-working False Prophet, to bring the world into the conscious and open worship of Lucifer/Satan and the Antichrist (Revelation 13:4-18, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 19:20). God will let them succeed in this, but for less than four years (Revelation 13:5b, Daniel 12:11-12), before Jesus Christ returns from heaven and defeats them completely (Revelation 19:20 to 20:3). Jesus will then set up his own, 1,000-year, physical kingdom on the earth with the physically resurrected Church (Revelation 20:4-6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 2:26-29, Psalms 66:3-4, Psalms 72:8-11, Zechariah 14:8-21).
The Barbarian quoted Uscinski in post #140:
“People who have lost an election, money or influence look for something to explain that loss.”
That is what happened after Trump was elected. The "Russian collusion" conspiracy theory took on full power as a way to explain how he could have beaten Clinton.
But it wasn't Russia that beat her, but the People of the U.S. based on their democratic election system.
The d.s. hates democracy to its core, and so it gladly took up the "Russian collusion" conspiracy theory in order to go after a duly elected President, just as it had gone after candidate Trump from the start.
But the Russian conspiracy theory has proven to be a total washout: Not a single charge of "collusion".
Instead, now it is all about going after Trump with regard to financial crimes, while purposely avoiding Clinton's financial crimes with regard to Clinton Foundation pay-to-play.
The d.s. and the left should just admit that Trump beat Clinton fair and square, and give him a break just as they are giving Clinton a break. The left should be focusing on defeating Trump in 2020 fair and square based on the U.S.' democratic election system.
Anything less would show the utter politicization of the d.s., and the utter inability of the left to admit that it simply lost 2016.
It lost because it neglected the People who elected Trump.
Similarly, the only way to defeat the d.s. is if the People, both right and left, demand its dismantling and the restoration of the People's Constitutional rights.
That the right and left can work together was proven by the criminal justice reform bill which was passed recently. What is needed now is a similar, d.s. reform bill.