The 'Invisible Government' steps out of the shadows [View all]

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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.

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.

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 the worst excesses of the Gilded Age. The incoming Trump Administration wears gross corruption proudly, on its sleeves, shoes, and speed dials. Evil is walking in broad daylight, aided and abetted by unapologic stooges on the Supreme Court.