The Plain People

 

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

―H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), journalist (The Baltimore Sun) social critic and author, “Notes on Democracy,” 1926.

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Use your individual ignorance for good. Vote.

 

 

 

PeezPIX

 

Waiting night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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