Kaiser roll?
“The Frenchman Jean Jacques Rousseau penned a chilling warning coupled with a summation that amazingly describes America’s political landscape today:
“Finally, when the state, on the eve of ruin, maintains only a vain, illusory and formal existence, when in every heart the social bond is broken, and the meanest interest brazenly lays hold of the sacred name of ‘public good,’ the general will becomes mute: All men, guided by secret motives, no more give their views as citizens than if the state had never been; and iniquitous decrees directed solely to private interest get passed under the name of laws.”