Reply #203: The Senate has a long history of stomping on the American people

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for the benefit of their wealthy owners.

Check this out:

David Graham Phillips, "The Treason of the Senate", Cosmopolitan (March, 1906)

"Treason is a strong word, but not too strong, rather too weak, to characterize the situation which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be, and vastly more dangerous: interests that manipulate the prosperity produced by all, so that it heaps up riches for the few; interests whose growth and power can only mean the degradation of the people, of the educated into sycophants, of the masses toward serfdom."

Could have been written this morning.