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kpete

(71,980 posts) Mon Aug 5, 2013, 10:38 AM Aug 2013

"You have to wake the people up first, then you''ll get action."

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

wakey, wakey everyone!!!

and peace, kp

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"You have to wake the people up first, then you''ll get action." (Original Post) kpete Aug 2013 OP

H. L. Mencken: In a democracy, the two major parties spend all their time and money to convince Nanjing to Seoul Aug 2013 #1

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1. H. L. Mencken: In a democracy, the two major parties spend all their time and money to convince

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the public the other is not fit to rule. And both do this admirably. And both are right.

H.L. Mencken: When asked if there is so much about the United States he doesn't like, why doesn't he just leave, Mencken smiled and replied "why do people go to zoos?"

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