The lobbyists really rule America
That is like saying guns kill people. Lobbying is only a conduit activity to exert power. Your inability to see or acknowledge things which work in the shadows undermines your scope. The control is not within any system of government, it acts outside of it. Those who control/guide things to their advantage employ the use of Shared Values between Inter-Agency-Governnmental-And-Corporate Entities.
If a circle of people are "guiding" the president on what he sees and does in the name of "patriotism" that is - by definition - a cabal. Working in secret. To achieve some goal based on those shared values.
The NYT anon article describes a group of "like-minded individuals" who have great concern for America and are subverting the president's ability to govern because they believe they are acting as patriots. <---------------------- THAT if you apply it to, say, the Obama admin, I think everyone in this forum would be in washington with a pitchfork. But not so much because we agree with the "cabal" so we are down with it.
The precedent of "like-minded individuals acting in concert to subvert the presidency" REALLY IS Treason on paper. It is. I dare anyone to say otherwise. Unless we are having some revolution I am unaware of? Even then, the winner of a revolution decides who was the bad guy and not until it is over.
That is like saying guns kill people. Lobbying is only a conduit activity to exert power. Your inability to see or acknowledge things which work in the shadows undermines your scope. The control is not within any system of government, it acts outside of it. Those who control/guide things to their advantage employ the use of Shared Values between Inter-Agency-Governnmental-And-Corporate Entities.
If a circle of people are "guiding" the president on what he sees and does in the name of "patriotism" that is - by definition - a cabal. Working in secret. To achieve some goal based on those shared values.
The NYT anon article describes a group of "like-minded individuals" who have great concern for America and are subverting the president's ability to govern because they believe they are acting as patriots. <---------------------- THAT if you apply it to, say, the Obama admin, I think everyone in this forum would be in washington with a pitchfork. But not so much because we agree with the "cabal" so we are down with it.
The precedent of "like-minded individuals acting in concert to subvert the presidency" REALLY IS Treason on paper. It is. I dare anyone to say otherwise. Unless we are having some revolution I am unaware of? Even then, the winner of a revolution decides who was the bad guy and not until it is over.