Most Americans don’t recall recent history. This is why the elites get away with the same shit over and over.Never said you were a conservative and didn't mean to imply that. Being an old duffer, I just don't recall seeing or hearing the term widely used if used at all...especially in the reports from the Church Committee. My initial point was that every side at one point or another points out that our country is being run by a shadow gov't. It's just ironic to me that the folk who consistently defend the military industrial complex are now warning against it as if no one can recall history.
And as to the left being "dupes", all one has to do is listen to some of the hosts of Pacifica Broadcasts, who consistently remind us that the very organizations that screwed us are NOT the shinining knights, but rather just the in-fighters.
Anyone who tells you the deep state doesn’t exist, is a fool.