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Originally Posted by Pete F.
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This video is hilarious, as a comedy show should be. But it is not a credible rebuttal of the existence of a "deep state," or shadow government, or double government, or administrative state. The videos I posted are not far fetched predictions like Maher's. They are actual instances that actually happened. We actually do have administrative government run by unelected bureaucrats. We actually do have security and intelligence agencies which have subverted our laws and various presidential commands. And the Trump presidency actually did have a concerted effort against it by various "deep state" agencies.
Bill Maher's ridiculous dark comedy fictional scenario is no beleivable match to Eisenhower's warning about the military industrial complex and his warning that "We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes." Eisenhower claimed that he had wanted to say the "military–industrial–congressional complex. Which is actually, as it exists today, more accurate. It would also be more accurate if, as it has grown to be, it included "media" as part of the complex.
We do have agencies outside of constitutional limitations which have been gaining unconstitutional power and have been acting in ways that "endanger our liberties [and] democratic processes." That is, acting in ways that wreck democracy.