The Problem of Democracy

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Combat of Crazies

“Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazies; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

—H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), journalist, author and curmudgeon, In Defense of Women, 1918

• Editorial Comment: “Imaginary”? Look how democracy has devolved since 1918. Mencken would blow his lunch.


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