As Franklin D. Roosevelt warned us, “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”
We have only ourselves to blame if we continue to lose sight of the realization that the government is “we the people” and to work together, not to limit government’s responsibilities or its protections, but to rid ourselves of the controlling power of money to influence those writing out laws and tax codes.
