The smartest thing the deep-state/CIA did was subsume and coopt the Left into their power structure, especially corporate media and big tech.
They now have the old hippies and young wokesters cheering for non-stop war and empire-building abroad. America’s left cheer for social restrictions of all kinds, and limits on free-speech. As long as they get their Government checks and no one dares question their sexual ethics, its all good
Obama, or whoever controlled him, was the most destructive, war-mongering President there was, right on the heels of Bush - and yet he ran as the “Hope and Change” candidate and is still revered by American socialists.
“The smartest thing the deep-state/CIA did was subsume and coopt the Left into their power structure, especially corporate media and big tech.”
The neocons were/are children of the left.
I argue they coopted the right.