Thursday, April 26, 2012

"We Deserve It Good and Hard"

When it was still ok to have an opinion. Before the statists took over.

Great piece via ZeroHedge on H.L. Mencken...courtesy of Jim Quinn at the Burning Platform. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-hl-mencken-was-right I swiped the last part of it...

H.L. Mencken understood the false promises of democracy 80 years ago:
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. It is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
We deserve to get it good and hard, and we will.
 

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