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H.L. Mencken on Democracy

posted by Curt, on June 5, 2008 06:05 am

Here's a great quote on democracy from H.L. Mencken:

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

And the practice is that, even though we deserve to get it good and hard, we rarely do. And, because we never "get it," we never learn, and the cycle of bad public decisions seems to go on ad infinitum. While I don't have a whole lot of good to say about Mencken, I must admit that he seems right on with this quote.

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