A few links follow.
George Bush (Sr.) in a context of CIA connections.
The CIA, an in-depth look at their roots and actions. This second video is a part of a series of videos that looks even closer at the deep state. There's like five of them.
The more I watch, the more I'm convinced that we need some sort of popular uprising. These people own everything. They use all the old tools of warfare, propaganda, torture and example killings, assassination - except they use them on civilians.
The attitude of plausible deniability is bullshit.
Everyone at the top knows everything that's going on. Enough that they could direct the overall kind of operations if they wanted to. But they don't want to, because they profit by war, by the terrorist acts of the CIA, and by unrest and civil strife in foreign nations.
And unfortunately, I think this attitude, while more prominent on the right, infests both major parties in our country. They're all shareholders together. They sit on the boards of directors of each other's companies.
So my prompt for this debate is rather simple, although the subject may be obfuscated by design. Would you agree or disagree that the United States is a corporatocracy, a fascist state, or an oligarchy?