• psmgx@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Mencken had a lot of good one liners

    Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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      11 days ago

      If the purpose of a system is what it does, then it seems the purpose of democracy is the self flagellation of the masses.