H. L. Mencken Quote

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... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.

222 - Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...