13 American Democracy
I originally posted this a few days after the 2004 election in the United States, but it’s still true today:
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. 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, journalist and satirist (1880 – 1956)
This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it?that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
?Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, November 1971
[tags]Bush, United States[/tags]
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