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To: desertsolitaire
"...They say people get the government they deserve..."

To put it as H.L. Mencken puts it:

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

18 posted on 01/31/2024 7:53:17 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: rlmorel

That H.L. Mencken quote is one of my favorites.


21 posted on 01/31/2024 8:19:01 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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