I just finished reading the The Post-Modern President by Joshua Micah Marshall, the article TIA linked above. Marshall seems to remember events as I remember them and I think his “War on Expertise” hypothesis has a great deal of merit. The officials in the U.S. government, together with the actual but hidden powers that Fuller talks about, accept no argument that runs counter to their ideology and self-interest. They believe not only in the superiority of their power but, I think, in their imagined superiority to the rest of humanity.

      - Mark