Face it Americans, we are now where H. L. Mencken predicted we would be back in 1920.
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When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the
fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in
terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack
or be lost...
All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion
that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. 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 heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” – H. L. Mencken
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