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Originally Posted by bobabode
Grover in the Gilded age? That's Cleveland for ya. Google cheat here.
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Yep, me too. I figured Bob would let the cat out of the bag.
Grover Cleveland it was, in his 1888 State of the Union Address;
http://www.infoplease.com/t/hist/sta...union/100.html
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/opinio...e&id=3&start=1
Lengthy address, which also demostrates that Clinton wasn't the first long winded President.
But, it contains many an interesting element, that show Cleveland was a broad thinker and a pragmatist. He speaks out against too much government but, also appears to acknowledge that letting corporate (private sector) power grow out of control, corrupting government, is just as big a mistake.
Privately owned, corporate power should NEVER be allowed to exceed that of our elected representatives. EVER. Corporations are notoriously authoritarian, oligarchical and undemocratic. Note that he mentions the evil of communism. There is a reason why the two are juxtaposed within this one speech. Corporatism and Communism may be somewhat different in operating principle, but are not so different in practice;
Both subjugate the individual to the will of the oligarchy.
Thank the Roberts court and the corrupt ideology of modern conservatism* for the future I fear we are about to realize.
Dave
(*As opposed to the Republican conservatism of men such as Cleveland and T. Roosevelt.)