“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and thus clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”—H.L. Mencken
When unelected bureaucrats start running things, they get badly screwed up.
Eventually it goes FUBAR.
Smart guy that Mencken.
H L Mencken, the master of punditry. Perfect quotation for occasion!