They want to make sure you don’t engage in any antisocial behavior, and for that you had better be grateful. Any ingratitude would be antisocial. From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:
So the Deep State is good, but the Total Surveillance State is even better.
The Deep State and The Total Surveillance State are viewed unfavorably for self-evident reasons: the unelected Deep State is anathema to democracy and the Total Surveillance State (and its oh-so-profitable handmaiden, Surveillance Capitalism) are anathema to democracy, freedom and personal liberty.
Let’s play devil’s advocate and consider the positives of the Deep State and the Total Surveillance State. As devil’s advocates we must set aside our negative emotions and assessments, and conjure up a case for favoring the Deep State and the Total Surveillance State.
A recent attempt to cast a favorable light on the Deep State breezily conflates public/civil service with the Deep State, a purposeful misdirection of the definition of the Deep State: the Deep State is not the sum total of public/civil servants or federal employees; it is the unelected governmental structure that makes decisions on behalf of the nation’s citizenry without their knowledge, input or approval.
It Turns Out the ‘Deep State’ Is Actually Kind of Awesome (NYT.com)
The Deep State’s job is to keep the Imperial Project humming along regardless of whomever has been elected to the Presidency or Congress. The protocols of the Republic require some appearance of oversight by the elected branches of the state over the unelected branches of the state, but elected officials aren’t about to shut down the Imperial Project–the maintenance and expansion of all forms of cultural, economic, financial, diplomatic and military power, a.k.a. soft and hard power. Oversight boils down to “don’t do anything which embarrasses us optically.”
They can preach to their useful idiot true believer choir and I’ll pass on the Panopticon.
Eisenhower said if you want total security then go to prison and even there you can get knifed or worse.
A small arsenal with SMG and Glocks was found at a South American prison recently but they had no bullets.
Let them carry on with their control freak delusions as everything collapses around them.