The “deep state” – most people are part of it
Meaning of the “deep state” – the “deep state” is a political term for clandestine or unacknowledged network of unelected government officials, military leaders or private elites, who covertly manipulate state policy and institutions.
The concept describes a permanent entrenched shadow power structure that operates independently of and sometimes in direct opposition to the elected leadership (Wikipedia.com).
The ‘’deep state’’ functions at all levels of human society, from small communities to complex enormous states such as the United States, Russia and China. The more complex the political state structures , the more social, political and economic incentives are in place and active for the ‘’deep state’’ to exercise control over the local populations and beyond.
We shall present recent historical examples of such social manipulation by the ‘’deep state’’ in order to make our thesis more relevant and clear.
Our first historical example involves the United States , during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and the 1970s. At that time, there was a popular demand, especially by the well educated young population, expressing liberal and leftist ideas which they had absorbed in America’s higher academic institutions. They demanded an end to their country’s imperialist wars and ambitions around the globe. This student movement had political appeal in many Western societies and around the world.
What the intelligence services of these allied Western states did was to promote a ‘’counter culture’’ , filled with drugs, permissive social behavior and the loosening of state controls on the young population, supporting free expression in general.
The result was that this generation of liberated young people became disoriented through drug abuse and extreme social behavior. This eventually weakened their solidarity and social influence to activate a ‘’progressive political change’’, aiming for equality and social justice. The ‘’deep state’’ in this historical case won because it took control and manipulated the ‘’political culture’’ of these Western societies.
*** the meaning of political culture—it is the set of values , attitudes and beliefs that define how a society views its government and its role within it( google.com)
The second recent historical example I shall discuss concerning the political influence of the ‘’deep state’’ is the Suez Crisis of 1956, when the new nationalist government of Egypt decided to nationalize the Suez Canal which was under the private control of a joint venture enterprise of British and French financial interests .
The president of Egypt at that time was colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser , a Pan Arabist ideologue and a leading member of the non-aligned international movement, like Nehru of India, Sukarno of Indonesia and Nkrumah of Ghana in East Africa.
President Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal to increase the international prestige of Egypt while at the same time ensuring a steady flow of income for his country from the transit fees paid by ships passing through the Canal.