H. L. Mencken correctly observed:
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
Mencken also was prescient:
As democracy is perfected, the office 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 hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
But this is not about Mr. Mencken. Rather it is about some unknown individual who committed the following to the email world:
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The Sage of Baltimore, who despised the lower Eastern Shore ("Transchoptankia") and Salisbury in particular, also said that
ReplyDeleteDemocracy is government by jackals elected by jackasses (Rush Limbaugh's "low information voters")!
C'est vrai!