Deep State is a parallel government or a powerful group that controls the nation in spite of not being officially in power. Deep State exert influence and control over the officially government of the country to fulfil its goals and serve its purpose. Deep state refers more to a hidden organization seeking to manipulate the public state. It is an alleged secret network of especially nonelected government officials and sometimes private entities (as in the financial services and defense industries) operating extralegally to influence and enact government policy. The power of the deep state comes from experience, knowledge, relationships, insight, craft, special skills, traditions, and shared values. Together, these purported attributes make nameless bureaucrats into a super-government that is accountable to no one. That is a scary prospect. The term "deep state" gained popularity in some circles during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election in opposition to mainstream Republican and Democratic candidates.
The modern concept of a deep state is associated with Turkey where a secret network of military officers and their civilian allies trying to preserve their secular ideology.
You may often wonder how is this possible i.e. how come people outside the government can exercise their power like this ? Shockingly this is true in almost all nations. Though Pakistan has an elected government headed by the Prime Minister, it is actually the Army that controls the governance of Pakistan. Till date, no prime minister of Pakistan has yet served their full five year term.
The Congress Party led by Nehru-Gandhi dynasty remained in power for almost all terms of Indian government till 2014. The last two terms came under Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) from 2014 onwards. However BJP found it very difficult to run the government in spite of full majority as the parallel bureaucracy, local bodies, students organizations, judicial lobbies, education boards and universities were entirely controlled by Congress Party. It has taken lot of time and efforts for BJP to handle this control by Congress.
In the USA, since 1963, the deep state has enabled a hybrid association of government elements and parts of top-level industry and finance that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process. Donald Trump administration has accused the Intelligence agencies such as the CIA to thwart its policy goals.
In UK, the deep state is controlled by the Civil Service of the nation. The Prime Minister has mentioned how the Civil Service controls the government. They genuinely see themselves as the true guardians of the national interest, and think that their job is simply to wear the elected politicians down and wait them out.
Deep State is seen in all nations. One has to see and analyze carefully how these powers control the functioning of the nation and accordingly take decisions related to business, commerce or trade accordingly.
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