The mainstream media has a couple of new favorite terms to bandy about these past 3-4 years that were rarely, if ever, used by them previously, and that they now use (without accurate definition) to refer to others who are just like themselves while pretending to be "higher, mightier and more moral." Yes, it's a form of transference, but it's much worse than that.
It is intentional obfuscation and cover up of the real state of affairs in these once great united States. Both terms have reached the status of what I call a "faux-truism." I define a faux-truism as a term that is widespread in both usage and acceptance and for which the majority of people think they have a working understanding (and would even be so bold as to proffer a definition-- if ever asked) but that really means something a lot different than the general consensus meaning.
When people hear the term "swamp" they generally consider it to be the general state of winked-at corruption that governs affairs inside the beltway. While that is true, the affect of using the term, constantly, is that it makes the situation "common," "expected," and even acceptable. Additionally, the swamp is far more than just policymakers and staffers taking bribes, playing dirty politics, and self-aggrandizing at the expense of the general public. It is, in fact, the total surreptitiously planned replacement of our Constitutional Republic, with an oligopoly-controlled totalitarian and Communist society. This nation is being gradually subsumed by the conspirators into becoming nothing more than a governmental supervisory/administrative unit of their emerging New World Order (i.e. a real and open technocratic world government.)
The term "deep state" is usually defined to refer to the staffers and bureaucrats who "really" run the government despite the nameplates of the people we elect to "represent" us every two, four or six years. While, part of the truth has been told with that, the more important thing for the American public to understand is that this is not a built-up-over-time, "accidental," bumbling (even lovable) bureaucracy that is generally incompetent and wasteful, but that it is a carefully-planned and directly guided monolith that reports to the real masters of the universe--the international billionaire (and usually pedophile) elite that run the planet. Some of the people inside "the deep state" who really run things (FOR the elected stuffed-shirt, talking heads) are not even directly paid by "the government" or by the "taxpayers," but by these billionaires directly, or through their "think tanks" and TAX-EXEMPT "foundations" and "trusts."
In other words, both terms are specifically designed (probably at the Rockefeller's New School for Social Research in Manhattan--who coined the NWO terms we all know and use all the time...like "multiculturalism," "diversity," "hate crimes/speech," "wellness," etc. ) to express some truth as a relief valve for public angst, while acting to make light of, and to cover for, the truly extremely serious nature of the problem.
When someone uses one of those terms in your presence, please remember this article, and say "Oh, you mean the treasonous cabal bent on destroying America?" and see what kind of reaction you get. Most people are just not willing to face up to the fact that both "parties" and almost ALL elected officials are in on the PLANNED OVERTHROW of America, wittingly or not.