Quote of the day—Henry Louis Mencken

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right. The Coolidge Prosperity and the Hoover Economy of Plenty were quite as bad as the New Deal. The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.

Henry Louis Mencken
Minority Report, page 222.
[This collection of observations was first published in 1956 and they appear to be just as true now as they were then.—Joe]

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