What kind of antidemocratic horseshit is this?
It states that in a perfect democracy, the masses would elect morons because they themselves are morons.
The US is not a perfect democracy lol. I’d hardly even call it an imperfect one, atleast for the working class.
Did I misunderstand it? He is claiming that in a perfect democracy the leader would eventually be an idiot because the people are idiots no?
I’m claiming that thats a stupid fucking way to view society and that it isn’t even close to being reflective of our reality.
holy crap and that was before nixon.
Mencken had a lot of good one liners
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Hnngh hnngh yes yes quite the unwashed masses need to be kept far from power hmm yes Tallyho good man hmm hmm.
