AutumnW
18th February 2025, 21:58
From Chris Hedges' latest on X
The Trump administration’s war with the deep state is not a purgative.
It is not about freeing us from the tyranny of intelligence agencies, militarized police, the largest prison system in the world, predatory corporations or the end of mass surveillance.
It will not restore the rule of law to hold the powerful and the wealthy accountable. It will not slash the bloated and unaccountable spending— some $1 trillion dollars — by the Pentagon.
All revolutionary movements, on the left or the right, dismantle the old bureaucratic structures. The fascists in Germany and the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union, once they seized power, aggressively purged the civil service.
They see in these structures, correctly, an enemy that would stymie their absolute grip on power. It is a coup d'état by inches. Now we get our own."
https://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1891926365332701665
1891926365332701665
The Trump administration’s war with the deep state is not a purgative.
It is not about freeing us from the tyranny of intelligence agencies, militarized police, the largest prison system in the world, predatory corporations or the end of mass surveillance.
It will not restore the rule of law to hold the powerful and the wealthy accountable. It will not slash the bloated and unaccountable spending— some $1 trillion dollars — by the Pentagon.
All revolutionary movements, on the left or the right, dismantle the old bureaucratic structures. The fascists in Germany and the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union, once they seized power, aggressively purged the civil service.
They see in these structures, correctly, an enemy that would stymie their absolute grip on power. It is a coup d'état by inches. Now we get our own."
https://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1891926365332701665
1891926365332701665