You say the Shadow Government doesn't exist. To say that is have undeserved trust in a Government. 
We are called "conspiracy theorists" for entertaining the suspicion the one more time the Government is FSCKing us. You say "Snopes said it never happened" but you heard it or saw it. So excuse me for believing this is misinformation too.
From spraying virii into the New York and San Francisco subways to "Miss Ever's Boys"* in the Tuskeegee Experiment, the Government has consistently disregarded the knowing consent of participants in their projects.
For the first five years here, just fifty miles North of me, The Government and Lockheed had  an little known unshielded nuclear reactor reacting suspended 50 feet in the air for "research". Basically "to see what happens." Shh! It's a secret.

So you think the Government has gotten honest? Never happen. Lord Acton was correct. Trump is the only one who ever even tried. No wonder they hate him so much. Don Quixote de la Trump. It was a fool's errand. Everyone knows that everyone there is enriching themselves at the public trough above and beyond their legal compensation. Every last one will deny it. You don't mess with a good thing. And they don't give a shit about you!

We like the blame the people at the top, especially if they are not on "our team". But the truth is Party is immaterial posturing debate over trivialities of things they never should have meddled in to begin with. The problem is at every level from top to bottom. And is inherent not in real capitalism, but in this Government dominated capitalism. There is a word for that. a word whose meaning, even in the dictionary has altered over the decades. Now used by the Left to describe anyone who disagrees with them.
And the Webster definition is now "a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual".
When the man who presented the world the Movement described it it was a financial system based on capitalism but controlled by the Government. Private ownership of Property and Government control,  Fascism. It's what we have kids.

We even had a bit of a headstart on Mussolini but we won't call it that. "What's good for General Motors is good for the US". No one said that Government control would be bad for the companies. Labyrinthine rules and regulations never voted in Congress but passed to an Administrative system the an army of unelected bureaucrats. The rules exist in many places to be difficult understand and comply with. They provide a barrier to entry as the cost in money and time block off competition to the established players who are big enough to afford to comply.
But do we have to have the endless wars?

 On Trump
My, look at how the powers that be hate him.  
It seems curious that putting a person who actualy was on the paying side of the equation and loved the "us deplorables" is so reviled by the Elites and the people on the taking side. Not at all. He is up-setting their good thing. He is rocking the boat. He is overturning the apple-cart. He is overturning the tables in the Temple. and they don't like it.

On his taxes. I am not this least bit interested in the theatrics of his taxes. Theatrics? Yes that's all it is. There is a point where you cross-over from the chance of being audited by the IRS to the certainty of it to being continually audited. The Trump organization was large enough to be continually audited. And they are better at it than the U. S. Congress. Between the zealousness of the usual IRS Agent and the Lois Lerners still lurking in there, if there had been anything, we would have known it before he was even Nominated.





* HBO softened the story a good bit. Covering for the Gov't again?