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Kurgan Gringioni
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Dumbasses -
Or Lafferty/KKKunich. Either way - what a dream ticket! They could
fulfill the eloquent prophecy made by H.L. Mencken in 1920:
"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face
men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is
that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of
comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is
done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what
they cannot understand. ... The larger the mob, the harder the test. In
small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally
fights his way through. ... But when the field's nationwide ... then
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's 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 hearts' desire at
last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
Or Lafferty/KKKunich. Either way - what a dream ticket! They could
fulfill the eloquent prophecy made by H.L. Mencken in 1920:
"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face
men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is
that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of
comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is
done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what
they cannot understand. ... The larger the mob, the harder the test. In
small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally
fights his way through. ... But when the field's nationwide ... then
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's 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 hearts' desire at
last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."