The Path to Total Dictatorship: America’s Shadow Government and Its Silent Coup

[rangerrebew]

The Path to Total Dictatorship: America’s Shadow Government and Its Silent Coup
Published: October 25, 2016


By John Whitehead, the Rutherford Institute

    “Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system … a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state…. The important point to remember about this group is not its ideology but its organization… It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government…. This group … is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically irremovable.”— Senator William Jenner, 1954 speech

Unaffected by elections. Unaltered by populist movements. Beyond the reach of the law.

Say hello to America’s shadow government.

A corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country, this shadow government represents the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedom of its citizenry.

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[geronl]

both major parties are controlled

Trump is not any different, it's all scripted

[INVAR]

Been saying since 2008, we had a velvet coup - Cook County went national and we saw our last legit national contest back then.

2012 sealed that fact, and today- few to none believe it.

They are convinced elections are legitimate, when all the evidence to the contrary are staring them square in the face.

As Jefferson noted, all experience hath shown, that men are disposed to suffer evil, while evils are sufferable, than abolish the forms to which they have become accustomed.

Americans are accustomed to this tyranny, and they dare not change or abolish it.

Oh well.  We deserve what is coming.

[Ghost Bear]

Yeah... this is pretty much why I gave up on term limits as any sort of solution. Term limiting those in Congress would ultimately just give more power to the professional aides and bureaucrats, as they would end up being the only ones in Washington who would know how to get anything done.