What is the Deep State?  Who are its members?  What is their motive?  How many of them are there?  These are the questions we ask as we wonder why there is so much resistance against a non-politician U.S. president. Defining the Deep State as anyone in the federal government who has something to gain by keeping the government as it is, these people would be the elected officials (both Democrats and Republicans), political appointees, and some of the civil servants. The elected officials want to keep the status quo.  It gives them power.  If the government were small, nobody would care about what it does.  With the government big, campaign contributors eagerly enrich the politicians through donations, jobs for relatives, and the personal services of "ladies." Civil servants in the intelligence industry have a way to thwart a president.  They leak rumors to the press that the president consorted with an enemy country.  It...(Read Full Post)