Thursday, 7 November 2024

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


"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." 
~ H. L. Mencken, from his 1916 Little Book in C Major


3 comments:

Tom Hunter said...
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Tom Hunter said...

Much as I've used that comment myself I also note this from Spiked:

Yes, they still swaddle in fancy academic dialect that belief they’re unwilling to state out loud: ‘These people are dumb as shit.’ They still view the Trumpist masses as uniquely susceptible to demagogic trickery and manipulation. As tragic inhabitants of a ‘dark fantasy’ who seem to struggle with ‘the difference between fact and fiction’, as a writer for the Atlantic put it this week. They are still that contemptuous.

They still view them as thick fucks. They still send their reporters to mingle ‘among America’s “low-information” voters’, as the New Yorker did recently.

Tom Hunter said...

See also the folks on The Bulwark

"Voters are too stupid to even, like, exist in the world...they're just morons who can't understand anything."