# Some people enjoy believing that The Deep State doesn't exist; that it's a 'right wing conspiracy theory'.

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# Sadly, it's a real thing, and it exists in most countries. In some - the UK for instance - it's widely known that the elected officials are actually the public faces for the unelected bureaucrats - the senior civil service. The media sweeps this under the carpet without directly addressing it and most people don't really understand who pulls the strings.

# Sadly this has become the norm in the West. Whether the real power is held by bureaucracies, banking cartels, shadowy groups or corporate oligarchies it all amounts to the same thing. 

# The people have lost control of their governments...