The man's complaint, I am sorry to say, mirrors a frame of mind all too common in our country. As my greatly-admired friend, the late Lawrence Dennis, used to say, Americans are monodiabolists. They believe in one devil at a time. They can't comprehend that there may be more than one devil. They are politically immature.
Alliances are the very warp and woof of politics.
There is no one pressure group strong enough to dominate all of the others. I look for an alliance of devils, not for one devil. If you wish to know why Willkie was nominated in 1940 and Eisenhower in 1952 or why the Senate ratified the Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union in 1963 or gave away the Panama Canal in 1978 or why the Congress consistently votes foreign aid or forced racial busing or why any number of things happen in America even though the voters may overwhelmingly oppose it, you must look for an alliance of pressure groups. The place of the banks in historical events in the twentieth century and even before is difficult to overemphasize. Representatives of the banking system infest and dominate virtually every position of power with which their private interests are concerned.