H. L. Mencken said it best.... - Democratic Underground

Postman

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Sun Sep-07-08 10:18 PM
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H. L. Mencken said it best....

Edited on Sun Sep-07-08 10:18 PM by Postman

"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." (Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920)

....this is what we get when dumbass Americans don't pay attention to politics until election day. It allows people like Rick Davis to be correct when he says...this election ISN'T about the issues.

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tigereye

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Sun Sep-07-08 10:20 PM
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1. nice to see a good Mencken quote!

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gateley

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Sun Sep-07-08 10:23 PM
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2. People vote for who they like. That's what it comes down to for a LARGE

number of voters. Like you'll get the job if the employer really likes you, even if someone else more qualified applied.

This is the first time I've seriously given thought to moving out of the country if the Reps win. I would be so disgusted with the people in America.

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Journeyman

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Sun Sep-07-08 10:43 PM
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3. Mencken also saw that the "boobeoisie" (his term for the stupid and the gullible). . .

were the source of most of the nation's problems. Unfortunately, he left no advice for how to overcome their undue influence.

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Bozita

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Sun Sep-07-08 11:03 PM
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4. He foresaw McCain vs Obama. ... He really did!

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
-H. L. Mencken

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hootinholler

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Mon Sep-08-08 12:26 AM
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6. That applies to 2000 more than now. n/t

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Bozita

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Mon Sep-08-08 12:54 AM
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7. Try replacing "Prohibition" with "Anti-Abortion" and see how this stands up in 2008

Edited on Mon Sep-08-08 12:56 AM by Bozita

All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy. …

… For religion is the greatest inspirer of hatred the world has ever seen, and it shows no sign of losing that character in its old age. Every effort to make the warring sects lie down together has failed. They quarrel incessantly, and they will keep on quarreling to the end of the chapter.

http://www.mencken.org/text/txt001/elliott.leo.1998.mencken-01.htm

-H. L. Mencken, The Impending Combat, May 28, 1928

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obamacon

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Sun Sep-07-08 11:16 PM
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5. LOL

That's true. But I look at this year's election- and outside of people on these kinds of boards, I would say most people don't know, for example, the difference between McCain and Obama's health plans, or their details. The issues hardly get discussed.

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