I’ve shocked a few Libs by explaining that the “Deep State” was coined by a Turkish journalist to describe a real thing in the Turkish government and military where there is a bunch of powerful un-elected officials who operate according to the same ideology and end up driving the direction of the government regardless of what elected politicians want to do.
Oh for sure. Another term people just assume started with conspiracy cranks or activists is “military industrial complex.” Made up by that famous peacenik radical hippie Dwight Eisenhower
I think people are mostly just sick of hearing about it. Usually if I see mention of the MIC in the wild, it precedes a completely misguided explanation of some particular instance of US imperial aggression.
I’ve shocked a few Libs by explaining that the “Deep State” was coined by a Turkish journalist to describe a real thing in the Turkish government and military where there is a bunch of powerful un-elected officials who operate according to the same ideology and end up driving the direction of the government regardless of what elected politicians want to do.
Oh for sure. Another term people just assume started with conspiracy cranks or activists is “military industrial complex.” Made up by that famous peacenik radical hippie Dwight Eisenhower
I think people are mostly just sick of hearing about it. Usually if I see mention of the MIC in the wild, it precedes a completely misguided explanation of some particular instance of US imperial aggression.