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H.L. Mencken on Democracy:

"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner".

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong"

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.."

"As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron".

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard".

Brace yourselves to get it good and hard, people.