[boticello]

'Deep state' could also be called 'permanent state' and means those unelected entities which hold power through changes of government.

Victoria Nuland is an example. She worked for six presidents and ten secretaries of state over 30+ years, always promoting the same war agenda. She has worked in concert with her husband Robert Kagan, who has worked as an adviser to several governments and think tanks. These people and organisations are all part of the deep state, aka security state, aka military industrial complex, as forewarned by President Eisenhower on his departure from office.

[gunian]

that sounds so cool better that than be starved out and slowly die like me while watching someone else use your SSN

so it's like lobbyists? or does rit have to be a specific industry

[Cthulhu_]

If we take this definition, which is a lot less conspiratorial than the association I've had with the term, it refers to influential longstanding politicians that kept a low profile and out of the media for the most part.