[mewzilla]

I wouldn't call what Deep State has done over the decades a coup.

But we have seen it before.

From 1963...

Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome

[blackdog]

"Ever higher taxes, an ever-in­creasing bureaucracy, an evermore absolutist state power, a paralysis of local initiative, a growing reli­ance on a central authority that started with some aspects of a welfare state and ended in full-fledged totalitarianism, with such features as prescribing occupa­tions and fixing wages and prices—such was the unhappy story of Rome’s Decline and Fall.

Does it take much exercise of the imagination to recognize in our own country and our own time some germs, at least, of the politi­cal, social, and economic diseases that first sapped and finally de­stroyed “the grandeur that

1963.....Wow!