Zitat Henry Louis Mencken, 1920

verfasst von kingsolomon, 10.11.2004, 00:13

-->"...when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense. He faces a mob of men who's chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even comprehend any save the most elemental-men who's whole thinking is done in terms of emotion and who's dominant emotion is a dread of things they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or lose. All the oadds are on the man who, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre. The man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that, in fact, his mind is a virtual vaccum. The Presidency tends to go to, term by term, such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the true 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 hearts desire and the White House will be adorned by.........a downright moron...."

H.L. Mencken writing in the Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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