The true nature of politics.
Rand Paul CPAC 2015 Full Speech
Relax—Both Parties Are Going Extinct
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/04/relax-these-midterms-mean-less-than-you-think.html
Our parties are shrinking because each in its own way can’t come to terms with decentralization. But it’s real, and it’s going to bury them.
D.C. Insider: There’s a Shadow Govt. Running the Country, and It’s Not Up for Re-Election
There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates on its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power.