"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
"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
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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.
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."
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