Deep State

You know...  I've just come to realize what bugs me most about the Deep State.

The ostensibly conservative members of same.

For year, DECADES, they have been mouthing conservative platitudes and principles that I shared, or thought I shared.  They often touted these great principles with an elegance I truly appreciated.  It's why I followed and listened to these pundits.  They appeared to be walking the same path as me.  (Some flat out lied and were stone cold socialists this whole time.)

But always there was a higher priority with them.  An agenda that superseded those stated principals.  The conservative Deep State had other principals.  Unstated because they knew those positions would not go over well with their allies.  Private principals that often contradicted their stated ones.

"Oh, you just SAID you supported the 2nd Amendment, and you are fine with instituting a Great Britain regime here?  Oh, you just SAID you were against abortion, but you are all for taxpayer money fully funding Planned Parenthood abortion mills?"

The abortion part is just an example.  That's not my issue.  I just notice the disconnect, the dissonance.

So it's a betrayal as well as hypocrisy.  It's all just so galling.  I hope one of their cruise ships hits an iceberg.