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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/deep_state_plutocrats_have_nowhere_to_hide.html

August 14, 2024
Deep State Plutocrats Have Nowhere to Hide
By J.B. Shurk
The worst mistake the Deep State ever made was to turn conservatives 
against Big Business.  Traditionally, fighting corporate power was the 
purview of the political left.  Conservatives have generally backed 
“free markets” because they despise socialism’s predilection for 
choosing economic winners and losers.  Conservative voters have long 
seen government regulation as more of a threat than Wall Street wheeling 
and dealing.

This makes sense.  American conservatives largely embrace the principles 
of the Founding Fathers’ laissez-faire liberalism, and many share policy 
preferences that overlap with today’s self-described libertarians.  For 
conservatives, the left’s “politics of envy” is unappealing.  The left’s 
desire to redistribute private property within some sort of Marxist 
system is seen as a dangerous impulse toward legalized theft.  The 
left’s love for collectivism over individual freedom is regarded as 
insidious.  Voters who support limited government do not tend to care 
how Sam Walton became a millionaire.  They are much more likely to 
applaud individual success as the product of hard work and innovation.

Times are changing, though.  Over the last forty years, middle-class 
Americans who put their faith in “free markets” have gotten smacked 
upside the head by corporate interests time and again.  The savings and 
loan scandal, pension scams, derivatives-juiced market crashes, the 
housing collapse, the offshoring of good jobs, tech bubbles, predatory 
lending, reverse mortgages, and countless other corporate schemes have 
left working-class Americans in dire straits.  All of these various gut 
punches have produced a kind of “awakening” among “live free or die” 
Americans: “free markets” are an illusion, and the economic game is rigged.

To be clear, freedom-loving Americans of every generation have known 
that powerful economic interests manipulate markets and take what is not 
theirs.  When private bankers conspired with corrupt congressmen to 
establish the Federal Reserve over Christmas in 1913, many horrified 
observers predicted how the ascending oligarchy would distort markets, 
weaken the dollar, and instigate unnecessary economic crashes.  Since 
the early nineteenth century, rural Americans have fought agricultural 
conglomerates committed to undercutting their family farms.  Since the 
early twentieth century, mom-and-pop retailers have struggled to compete 
against business cartels, Big Box stores, and online behemoths. 
Landowners have pushed back against railroads, oil companies, 
speculators, developers, and industrial giants willing to take what they 
want through intimidation or force.  Freedom-loving Americans have 
always understood that Big Business is a threat to freedom, too.

Still, more often than not, conservatives have found it easier to make 
peace with large corporations than with larger-and-larger government. At 
least in the sphere of private commerce, an ordinary citizen exercises 
some nominal free will: Will I work for this company?  Will I buy from 
this company?  Will I move as far away from this company as humanly 
possible?  When it comes to anything within the government’s domain, 
however, what it wants is what it usually gets.  Taxes, prisons, 
conscription laws, property laws, and business licenses provide Big 
Government with the tools to grab a citizen’s free will by the throat 
and squeeze it until it stops kicking.

What’s changed over the last ten years is that the vestigial boundary 
between private markets and government force has all but disappeared. 
Strangely enough, the corporate embrace of woke-ism as a social 
philosophy that should be imposed upon consumers has had the 
serendipitous effect of shattering the imaginary wall once separating 
Big Business from Big Government.  Parents began asking why Target and 
Disney were shoving transgenderism and child sex changes down their 
throats.  Moviegoers started resenting how Hollywood studios had 
replaced entertainment with divisive re-education seminars on “white 
supremacy,” “patriarchy,” and “global warming.”  Voters were forced to 
acknowledge that Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and corporate news shows 
were censoring conservative speech and promoting far-left propaganda. 
Consumers realized that banks were systematically punishing them for 
their Second Amendment advocacy, religious affiliations, and political 
beliefs.  All of these corporate provocations fell like sledgehammer 
blows upon conservatives’ heads, and Americans who once gave 
corporations a quiet pass became increasingly loud and angry.

Now the veil that has long prevented many conservatives from 
appreciating corporate tyranny has been removed from their eyes, and 
more Americans than ever before look at Big Business with suspicion.  To 
be sure, some measure of suspicion has always existed.  Conservatives 
listened to President Eisenhower when he warned them about the 
military-industrial complex.  They experienced how NAFTA and other 
so-called “free trade” agreements eliminated their jobs and destroyed 
their once-vibrant manufacturing towns.  Many rallied around Congressman 
Ron Paul when he demanded that the American people “audit the Fed.”  But 
it wasn’t until formerly beloved companies began grooming their children 
with explicit sex talks and drag queen story hours that a huge swath of 
the conservative electorate finally had enough of corporate tyranny.

This “awakening” is significant.  Conservatives have long understood 
that the State is not their friend, but now they understand that 
corporations are not their friends either.  For financial elites who 
prefer pulling the strings of government from the shadows, this change 
in social consciousness is alarming.  In the past, their emissaries in 
academia could say a few words about the liberating influences of “free 
markets,” and most conservatives could be counted upon to support Wall 
Street’s position.  Politicians could defend the offshoring of 
blue-collar jobs by talking about “marginal costs” and “comparative 
advantage,” and opponents of socialism would get in line, even as their 
hometowns died.  Now there is a new understanding taking hold: Big 
Government and Big Business are two sides of the same coin.  Whether 
tyranny arises from the boardroom or the committee room, its impact is 
the same.

All of this is bad news for the Deep State.  Why?  Because its existence 
depends a great deal upon nobody quite knowing what it is.  We talk 
about “the powers that be” running things in D.C.  We often say “they” 
did this or that because it’s difficult to know who exactly did what, 
where they did it, or when.  Confusion is the key.  Nobody with 
long-term power really wants to be known.  Presidencies last four to 
eight years, but bankers and corporate heavyweights wield power their 
whole lives.  It’s much better for them if everyone is more concerned 
with Kamala’s cackle than what all the BlackRock alums in the White 
House are doing with trillions in discretionary spending.  It’s much 
easier for central bank gangsters to make money from “black swan” events 
when their servants in Congress, the CDC, the Pentagon, the CIA, the 
NSA, and the Oval Office are in the position to fabricate new “black 
swans” whenever necessary.  The same éminences grises who profit from 
weapons of mass destruction and endless wars profit from mRNA “vaccines” 
and endless health emergencies.  The financial oligarchy rules over 
Americans with ease when Americans bicker about unimportant things.

The Deep State is prima facie evidence that self-government no longer 
exists.  In its place, extremely wealthy people use the Federal Reserve 
as their personal piggy bank, the Intelligence Community as their 
personal spies, the DOJ and FBI as their personal police force, the 
corporate press as their personal public relations team, and the U.S. 
military as their personal resource acquisition division.  The president 
and Congress are nothing more than the organ grinder’s dancing monkey — 
there to distract the public while doing the bidding of those with real 
power.  When their influence extends to international institutions such 
as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, or the World 
Bank, we call these Deep State shell games the “rules-based 
international order.”  It is all farce.

No wonder the plutocrats call President Trump an “authoritarian.”  He 
wants to be president, rather than play president.  He’s a direct threat 
to their unaccountable and unconstitutional Deep State.  And now that 
they’ve exposed themselves, there is nowhere left for them to hide.

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