All monopoly rests on the unregulated control of natural resources and
natural advantages, and such control by the special interests is
impossible without the help of politics. The alliance between business
and politics is the most dangerous thing in our political life. It is
the snake that we must kill. The special interests must get out of
politics, or the American people will put them out of business. There is
no third course.
Because the special interests are in politics, we as a Nation have lost
confidence in Congress. This is a serious statement to make, but it is
true. It does not apply, of course, to the men who really represent
their constituents and who are making so fine a fight for the
conservation of self-government. As soon as these men have won their
battle and consolidated their victory, confidence in Congress will
return.
But in the meantime the people of the United States believe that, as a
whole, the Senate and the House no longer represent the voters by whom
they were elected, but the special interests by whom they are
controlled. They believe so because they have so often seen Congress
reject what the people desire, and do instead what the interests demand.
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