Jeffrey Tucker of The Epoch Times has an excellent article on the three-layered swamp we are dealing with right now titled: The 3 Layers of the Technocratic State. The deep state is defined by Mr. Tucker as “the long-operating and largely out-of-public eye intelligence agencies and their cut-outs in the private sector. It is inclusive of security agencies, which means CIA but also some portions of the FBI, NSC, NSA, CISA, DHS, and top brass at the Pentagon.” How do they get away with it? By classifying their documents, emails and operations as Top Secret so they can do whatever they want and then say they never did it.
Next comes the middle state which encompasses the administrative bureaucracy of the Federal government. Invented in 1883 by the Pendleton Act, it has grown to more than 2 million employees and 400 agencies, many of which we have never heard of. As Mr. Tucker states: “Trump… believed that the president was supposed to be in charge, like a CEO or an owner of a company and never was willing to simply play the marionette as others had done, in exchange for plaudits and payoffs.” Trump finally figured out the best way to beat them was to fire them so he issued a series of executive orders to get the middle state under control. But of course, these were immediately litigated by their labor unions in the court system of Washington DC, the only place in the US with more democrats than New York City. The executive orders were struck down by none other than DC District Court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was then awarded with a US Supreme Court appointment for her brave actions in the face of this evil Ultramaga animal.
Finally, the third layer is the shallow state. This is the face of the Triad that the public sees and reacts to. It consists of legacy media outlets like CNN, NYTimes, Washington Post, MSNBC, etc. It also includes the major social media companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Reddit, as well as common internet tools like Google, Bing, and Wikipedia. It also includes military contractors and tax-supported academia. And finally, it includes major financial institutions that are beholden to the Federal Reserve, which is really part of the deep state. Mr. Tucker defines these as “captured institutions,” with revolving doors to the deep and middle states.
And Tucker continues,
“If you are seeking to set up and manage a 21st-century [Orwellian] regime, the ideal mechanism of compulsion and coercion is centered in the shallow state, because it is private, consumer-facing, and trusted more than other layers of the state. Every form of coercion can be ‘market washed’ as if these are purely private actions taking place. The strategic objective of any good plan for forcing your will on the unwilling, is to push the agenda from the deep state, through the middle state, and land in the shallow state for distribution to the public. This is because the shallow state is the most effective tool for bringing about results. You want the large corporations and big finance to be the ones to move against political enemies, and you want the major media rather than the agencies to distribute the propaganda. Whatever trust remains is centered on these shallow-state institutions and therefore they are the ones you want to capture to do your bidding.”