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The Invisible Government (repost)
The 'Invisible Government' steps out of the shadows
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219814013
TR Roosevelt, The Progressive Party Platform, 1912
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
FDR, Madison Square Garden address, 1936
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Not even J.D. Rockefeller or J.P. Morgan courted the sort of attention that Elon Musk 'enjoys.' Today, Citizen's United has put more money into politics than even the Gilded Age. The incoming Trump Administration wears its gross corruption proudly, on Nazi sleeves, shoes, and speed dials. Evil [is]walking in broad daylight, ably aided and abetted by all shitstain stooges on the Supreme Court.
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