It is the 'us and them' mentality. I know someone who worked in a government security service.
Their opinion of the general population's ability to self-govern is less than positive.
To be clear, I've put that quite diplomatically. They think we are a bunch of idiots who don't understand the bigger picture. Of course the fact that the bigger picture is deliberately kept secret from us is overlooked.
They are self serving, but what is worse in the US is that the security services are basically a bunch of private firms, who have a vested interest in keeping the government spending billions of dollars. Many of those companies also have vested interests in selling arms. It isn't a good mix.
...and we see results of this every day in news. "Follow the money" rule should be used all the time as default when trying to understand what the hell is going on in this world
Their opinion of the general population's ability to self-govern is less than positive.
To be clear, I've put that quite diplomatically. They think we are a bunch of idiots who don't understand the bigger picture. Of course the fact that the bigger picture is deliberately kept secret from us is overlooked.
They are self serving, but what is worse in the US is that the security services are basically a bunch of private firms, who have a vested interest in keeping the government spending billions of dollars. Many of those companies also have vested interests in selling arms. It isn't a good mix.