Effectively, these people are saying that the U.S. government has been overthrown in a coup and that the plotters were so successful that they have been able to

Effectively, these people are saying that the U.S. government has been overthrown in a coup and that the plotters were so successful that they have been able to keep it quiet until now. Reminds me of something Putin said in an interview with foreign press back in 2003 or 2004. He said that nobody has clean hands, not even himself. But you have to move forward. What the USA needs now is a politician with the courage of Putin, to admit that there are problems and corruption at the heart of government, but to move ahead anyway. As Putin's example has shown, you can start with unclean hands and nevertheless gain the support of a majority of the electorate. America has to move beyond its Puritan past and stop pretending that those in power are pearly white, or even that they need to give the appearance of being pearly white. That pressure to appear so clean is what opens the door to the corruption that has plagued American politics since the postwar boom of the military industrial complex.