The Real Deep State (Part 5/7)
How The Right-Wing Captured America
At the request of several readers, this article is part of a multi-part series exposing the real deep state—the corporate-theocratic machine that has quietly reshaped America for decades. Each part breaks down a different aspect of its power structure, revealing how it operates and how we can dismantle it. This is Part [5/7]
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The Real Deep State: The Perfect Projection
"The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed."
—Hannah Arendt, The Origin of Totalitarianism
For years, the right-wing machine has conditioned its followers to fear a mythical “deep state”—a supposed cabal of unelected bureaucrats, leftist elites, and globalists working to subvert democracy from the shadows. It’s been the cornerstone of Republican propaganda, used to justify every abuse of power and every attack on democratic institutions.
But here’s the ironic reality: The deep state exists—but it’s the very apparatus yelling about the “deep state”.
The think tanks, the dark money networks, the judicial pipeline, the corporate-controlled media, the evangelical foot soldiers—they are the actual unelected elite that has been running America for decades.
And their greatest trick? Convincing millions that their enemies are guilty of the very crimes they are committing.
Projection as Psychological Warfare
The deep state has always weaponized projection—accusing its enemies of its own crimes before it can be held accountable. This is not an accident—it’s a deliberate psychological strategy.
How Right-Wing Projection Works:
Disarm Critics Before They Can Strike
Republicans are rigging elections? No, they claim Democrats are stealing votes.
Conservative billionaires are running a shadow government? No, they claim it’s George Soros and “globalist elites.”
They’re flooding the courts with partisan judges? No, they claim Democrats are trying to “pack” the courts.
Create a False Equivalence
By accusing the left of the exact same things they are doing, they muddy the waters and make it impossible for casual observers to separate truth from lies.
Example: Trump’s open criminality is dismissed because “Biden is just as corrupt.” (He isn’t, but the accusation is enough to create doubt.)
Give Their Followers a Ready-Made Defense
Instead of having to explain their own corruption, their followers immediately shift the blame to the left.
Example: “Hunter Biden’s laptop” becomes a catch-all deflection to dismiss any accusation against Trump or the Republican Party.
Justify Authoritarianism in the Name of 'Fighting Back'
If the deep state is out to destroy conservatives, then they are justified in breaking laws, silencing dissent, and dismantling democracy in order to stop them.
This is how they rationalize coup attempts, voter suppression, and packing the courts with extremists.
Projection is not just a defense mechanism—it’s a weaponized political strategy.
Two Perfect Examples:
The Abortion Issue—The Greatest Spin in U.S. History
The abortion fight is one of the greatest political scams in American history—a manufactured crisis, engineered by the right-wing deep state to manipulate millions of evangelicals into becoming foot soldiers for their political machine.
Before the late 1970s, abortion was a non-issue for evangelicals. The Southern Baptist Convention even supported Roe v. Wade when it was decided in 1973. For decades, conservative Protestants largely saw abortion as a Catholic issue, not a battle they needed to fight.
So why did it suddenly become a defining issue for the religious right? Because Jerry Falwell and Paul Weyrich needed a way to pull evangelicals into politics.
At the time, the real concern of the evangelical leadership wasn’t abortion—it was segregation. Bob Jones University and other white evangelical schools were furious about losing their tax-exempt status due to their racist policies. But Weyrich and Falwell knew they couldn’t publicly mobilize evangelicals around defending segregation—so they needed a new rallying cry.
That’s when they landed on abortion.
They rebranded evangelical Christianity into a single-issue, anti-abortion movement.
They convinced millions that voting Republican was a religious duty.
They created the myth that abortion was the greatest moral crisis in American history.
It was a deliberate, calculated political strategy. Abortion wasn’t the problem—evangelical voter apathy was. And by the time they were done, the religious right had been fully absorbed into the Republican machine.
The result?
Theocrats took over the courts, culminating in the fall of Roe v. Wade.
Christian nationalism was embedded into the Republican platform.
Evangelicals became a captive voting bloc, manipulated by the very deep state they claim to oppose.
The abortion issue was never about morality or life. It was about power.
And today, that same machine is stripping away more rights—not just abortion, but contraception, LGBTQ+ protections, and even democracy itself.
The Gun Issue—The Greatest Fraud in U.S. History
"The greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people."
—Former Chief Justice Warren Burger on the modern interpretation of the Second Amendment
Just as the right-wing deep state manufactured the abortion issue to mobilize evangelicals, they engineered the modern gun rights movement to radicalize conservatives and ensure they would see any form of gun regulation as an existential threat to their freedom.
For most of U.S. history, the Second Amendment was not interpreted as an individual right to unlimited gun ownership. The Supreme Court had long ruled that the amendment was about maintaining well-regulated militias, not about individual citizens stockpiling arsenals. Even conservative legal scholars agreed.
So what changed? The NRA was captured by right-wing extremists.
Before the late 1970s, the NRA was a gun safety and sportsman organization. It supported commonsense gun laws, including background checks and bans on mail-order firearms. But just like the evangelical movement, the NRA was politically hijacked.
In 1977, a hard-right faction led by Harlon Carter staged a coup within the NRA, transforming it from a sporting organization into an aggressive political machine.
By the 1980s, the NRA was working hand-in-hand with ALEC and the Heritage Foundation, pushing the narrative that any gun regulation was an attack on fundamental freedom.
By the 2000s, right-wing justices—many handpicked by the Federalist Society—rewrote the meaning of the Second Amendment in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), overturning over 200 years of precedent.
The transformation of the gun issue was not organic. It was a deliberate, manufactured propaganda campaign designed to turn gun owners into a radicalized political force, ready to fight for Republican power at all costs.
The Lasting Impact of the Gun Propaganda Machine
✔ A Massively Profitable Gun Industry: The NRA, backed by gun manufacturers, turned gun culture into a hyper-masculine identity movement, where owning weapons became a marker of patriotism, rebellion, and manhood. Gun sales skyrocketed.
✔ Endless Manufactured Panic: Every time a Democrat takes office, the NRA and right-wing media manufacture fear that “they’re coming for your guns” to drive sales and keep their base engaged.
✔ A Permanent Culture War Wedge Issue: Conservatives have been conditioned to see any attempt at gun regulation—no matter how mild—as an attack on their entire way of life. Even policies with overwhelming public support, like universal background checks, are now politically impossible.
✔ Endless Violence, No Accountability: The mass shooting crisis is a direct result of this manufactured extremism. The U.S. is the only developed country where gun violence is a daily occurrence—because no other country has a deep-state-funded propaganda machine that radicalizes its citizens into believing gun control is tyranny.
The modern gun rights movement isn’t about the Constitution. It’s about ensuring a heavily armed conservative base that can be mobilized through fear and paranoia.
The right-wing deep state isn’t just interested in making sure people can own guns. They are ensuring that their followers are armed, radicalized, and ready to defend their power when democracy fails to deliver the results they want.
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How the Right-Wing Deep State Stays in Power
The beauty of their system is that it doesn’t rely on public support—it relies on control.
They don’t need majorities—they use gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the Electoral College to maintain power with a minority of the electorate.
They don’t need to win arguments—they just need their media apparatus to manufacture outrage that drowns out reality.
They don’t need fair courts—they have Leonard Leo’s judges to rubber-stamp their agenda, no matter how unpopular.
They don’t need grassroots movements—they have corporate-funded Christian nationalists and billionaire Super PACs to flood elections with cash.
They don’t need democracy—they need the illusion of democracy, just enough to keep the public pacified while they consolidate power.
And every accusation they hurl at the left is a confession about themselves.
The Final Irony: They’ve Trained Their Followers to Fight for Their Own Oppression
Perhaps the greatest achievement of the right-wing deep state is convincing millions of Americans to fight for their own subjugation.
Working-class conservatives cheer for tax cuts that only benefit billionaires.
Evangelicals fight for a Christian nationalist state that will strip away their freedoms the moment they dissent.
Right-wing voters demand deregulation—ensuring that corporations can exploit them even further.
They rally behind authoritarian leaders, thinking they are fighting the “deep state,” when in reality, they are serving it.
This is not just corruption.
This is not just political strategy.
This is psychological warfare. And if we don’t fight back, they will win.
The right-wing deep state isn’t hidden in the shadows—it’s operating in front of us, openly, without consequences. They’ve built a machine that warps reality, rigs the system, and turns their followers into foot soldiers for their own oppression. And unless we expose them, dismantle their institutions, and break their stranglehold on information, they will continue their march toward permanent minority rule.
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