By Bill Moyers and Mike Lofgren
Posted December 07,
2017
Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48374.htm
Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face.
Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome.
By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the
great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the
timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and Egypt; and the carts brought out
nothing but loads of dung. That was their return cargo.
— The Martyrdom of Man by Winwood Reade (1871)
There is the visible government situated around the Mall in
Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable
government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the
White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan
politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and
which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the
iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own
compass heading regardless of who is formally in power. [1]
