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* Agenda 21, a non-binding [[United Nations]] plan for sustainable development written in 1992, is often claimed (particularly on the right wing of American politics) to be a blueprint for imposing socialism, radical environmentalism and, in some versions, [[Kill the Poor|population reduction]] onto the world.
* Recently, some American conspiracy theorists - mostly those who support President [[Donald Trump]] - have proposed the existence of a "deep state", presumably run by Trump's critics, political opponents, and the media. In theory, a "deep state" a government body that functions autonomously and competes with the true government for power. There have been confirmed cases of real ones elsewhere in the world, including Turkey, Egypt, the Ukraine, and the Soviet Union; the last case the "deep state" was the KGB, and is now Russia's ''actual'' government. Despite such accusations, there is very little proof (well, actually, none at all) that such a conspiracy exists, and the idea of the President - who has the Department of Justice, National Guard, FBI, and CIA at his disposal - being simply unable to identify and arrest any "deep state" seems absurd.
** The 'deep state' theory presumes that a significant portion of the senior administrative apparatus of the DoJ, FBI, CIA, etc. are ''part of'' of the deep state, and would thus be of little use when ordered to collect evidence for the eventual prosecution of themselves and their co-conspirators. And not even by any blatantly actionable acts of cover-up either, but simply by exercising malicious compliance and selective obliviousness. You can of course disagree whether or not this is ''actually happening'' here and now, but fairness does compel us to admit that the conspiracy theory in question actually does try to explain this one. And also that it's certainly a thing that's genuinely happened elsewhere and elsewhen in the real world. Ultimately the entire 'deep state' theory is a treatise on the exact difference between position authority and actual authority, and every government and major institution in human history has been arguing that one since the beginning.
 
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