{"id":22434,"date":"2017-01-11T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22434"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:11:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:11:43","slug":"the-deep-state-goes-to-war-with-president-elect-using-unverified-claims-as-democrats-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22434","title":{"rendered":"The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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IN JANUARY, 1961,\u00a0Dwight Eisenhower delivered\u00a0his farewell address<\/a>\u00a0after serving two terms as U.S. president; the five-star general chose to warn Americans of\u00a0this specific threat to democracy: \u201cIn the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.\u201d That warning was issued prior to the decadelong escalation of the Vietnam War, three more decades of Cold War mania, and the post-9\/11 era, all of which radically expanded\u00a0that unelected faction\u2019s power even further.<\/p>\n

This is the faction that is now engaged in open warfare\u00a0against the duly elected and\u00a0already widely disliked<\/a>\u00a0president-elect, Donald Trump. They are using classic Cold War dirty tactics and the defining ingredients of what has until recently been denounced as\u00a0\u201cFake News.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their most valuable instrument is the U.S. media, much of which reflexively reveres, serves, believes, and sides with hidden intelligence officials. And Democrats, still reeling from their unexpected and traumatic election loss as well as\u00a0a systemic collapse of their party<\/a>, seemingly divorced further and further from reason with each passing day, are willing \u2014\u00a0eager<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 to embrace\u00a0any claim, cheer any tactic, align with any villain, regardless of how unsupported, tawdry and damaging those behaviors might be.<\/p>\n

The serious dangers posed by a Trump presidency are numerous and manifest. There are a wide array of legitimate and effective tactics for combatting those threats: from bipartisan congressional coalitions and constitutional legal challenges to citizen uprisings and sustained and aggressive civil disobedience. All of those strategies have periodically proven themselves effective\u00a0in times of political crisis or authoritarian overreach.<\/p>\n

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The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer IN JANUARY, 1961,\u00a0Dwight Eisenhower delivered\u00a0his farewell address\u00a0after serving two terms as U.S. president; the five-star general chose to warn Americans of\u00a0this specific threat to democracy: \u201cIn the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[199,9775,2779,5437,528,5567,1920],"class_list":["post-22434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-deep-state","tag-dwight-eisenhower","tag-fake-news","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-the-intercept","tag-us-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22435,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22434\/revisions\/22435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}