[LINK] The prescience of H.L. Mencken

[Roger Clarke]

Yep.  And it's the premise of 'Being There' (1979):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_There


On 8/8/19 11:10 am, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> A quote I just came across and just had to share it:
> 
> "All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and
> mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his
> mind is a virtual vacuum.
> 
> The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is
> perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the 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 heart's desire at last, and the White
> House will be adorned by a downright moron."
> 
> H.L. Mencken
> Bayard vs. Lionheart,
> The Evening Sun, Baltimore (26 July 1920)
> https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken


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