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Unholy alliance
An unholy alliance is a coalition among seemingly antagonistic groups, especially if one is religious, for ad hoc or hidden gain. Like patronage, unholy alliances are not necessarily illegal, but unlike patronage, by its deceptive nature and often great financial resources, an unholy alliance can be much more dangerous to the public interest. An early, well-known use of the term was by Theodore Roosevelt (TR):
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""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."" - 1912 Progressive Party Platform, attributed to TRO'Toole, Patricia, ""The War of 1912,"" TIME in Partneship with CNN, Jun. 25, 2006. and quoted again in his autobiographyRoosevelt, Theodore. An Autobiography: XV. The Peace of Righteousness, Appendix B, NEW YORK: MACMILLAN, 1913. where he connects Trusts and monopolies (sugar interests, Standard Oil, etc.) to Woodrow Wilson, Howard Taft, and consequently both major political parties.
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After the breakup of Standard Oil, TR lost the election, and the unholy alliance he had identified, oligopolies of a few big commodities corporations and their political allies, continued otherwise undeterred by the mutually beneficial indifference of both major political parties. In 1935, retired Marine Major General Smedley Butler described how this unholy alliance influenced U.S. foreign policy and how his job abroad had been to be a ""muscle man for big business."" In 1944, conservative journalist John T. Flynn described how this unholy alliance uses religion to sell its agenda abroad to the American public:
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""The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilise savage and senile and paranoid peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells.""Flynn, John T. (1944) As We Go Marching. p. 240
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A reference to this unholy alliance today is:
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Unholy Alliance, a review by PBS journalist, Rev. Dr. Allen Dwight Callahan of
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Phillips, Kevin (2006) American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, Viking Press.
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Other unholy alliances are the subjects of other books:
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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, by David Horowitz
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Unholy Alliance, by David Yallop, about the international drug trade and resultant political corruption
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Unholy alliance: religion and atrocity in our time, by Marc H. Ellis
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Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement With the Occult, by Peter Levenda
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Still other unholy alliances are found in ""Bootleggers and Baptists""Bruce Yandle, ""Bootleggers and Baptists: The Education of a Regulatory Economist."" Regulation 7, no. 3 (1983): 12. and Dixie Mafia.

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