I didn't mean as in being part of the establishment, I meant as in key spheres where failure or success decide if it can hold on to power.
but what is 'it'?
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Subservience to the state ?
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by state do you mean government? establishment always strikes me as a hollow term to negatively describe whatever it is thats controlling the government without really conveying much meaning. you might as well say the scribes of fate.