GREENWALD: THE EXTREMELY EVIL DEEP STATE IS ALL-POWERFUL AND, SIMULTANEOUSLY, INCOMPETENT

[David Morris]

Greenwald writes,

Empowering the very entities that have produced the most shameful
atrocities and systemic deceit over the last six decades is desperation of
the worst kind.

But here's the thing:* In **recent decades, the American entity that's
produced "the most shameful atrocities and systemic deceit" hasn't been an
intelligence agency -- it's been the Republican Party.* The Iraq War? The
return to torture? The construction of Gitmo? That wasn't driven by spooks,
it was demanded by the Executive Branch in the previous decade. And Donald
Trump represents a party that's more morally bankrupt and more greedy for
absolute power than even the Bush GOP.

The intelligence agencies? Greenwald writes,

FOR MONTHS, the CIA, with unprecedented clarity, overtly threw its weight
behind Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and sought to defeat Donald Trump.

And that's a sign that the Deep State is an unbridled force of pure evil?
If we accept Greenwald's premise, it means that the Deep State wasn't even
powerful enough to throw the election *to the favorite.*

I could go on about what Greenwald writes, but I'll direct your attention
to a passage I quoted at the top of this post. I'll add some emphasis this
time:

Democrats, still reeling from their unexpected and traumatic election loss
as well as a systemic collapse of their party
<http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/10/13576488/democratic-party-smoking-pile-rubble>,
seemingly divorced further and further from reason with each passing day,
are willing -- *eager* -- to embrace any claim, *cheer any tactic, align
with any villain,* regardless of how unsupported, tawdry and damaging those
behaviors might be.

Projection much, Glenn? You're bashing Democrats and the media on behalf of
Donald Trump. And you accuse other people of being willing to "align with
any villain"?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:48 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2017/01/greenwald-
> extremely-evil-deep-state-is.html
>
> So which is it? Is what Greenwald calls "the Deep State" an all-powerful
> totalitarian force that will crush us all under its jackboot? Or is its
> work so clumsy that relying on it to combat Donald Trump will only empower
> him more?
>
> Well, this is Greenwald, so, of course, he's going to bash his enemies
> from both directions, intellectual consistency be damned.
>
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