but apparently he anticipated the willful stupidity of the school voucher debate:
[quote] The United States has never developed an . . . intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right. [/quote]
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H.L. Mencken died 50 years
but apparently he anticipated the willful stupidity of the school voucher debate:
[quote] The United States has never developed an . . . intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right. [/quote]
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