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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSo Hillary is ahead. As H.L. Mencken said, "Nobody ever went broke understimating the taste
of the American public."
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So Hillary is ahead. As H.L. Mencken said, "Nobody ever went broke understimating the taste (Original Post)
Hoppy
Oct 2015
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A lot of American's have a taste for well financed politics-as-usual as displayed by Hillary.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Oct 2015
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brooklynite
(96,882 posts)1. America: You're too STUPID to know who to vote for...
A successful campaign message if ever I heard one.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)16. HAHAHAHA!
PatrickforO
(15,383 posts)2. LOL
It'll turn around.
msongs
(73,227 posts)3. gee H.L. Mencken said the very same thing nt
aidbo
(2,328 posts)4. that's probably why he was against representative democracy. nt
COLGATE4
(14,886 posts)5. Actually, it was "Nobody ever went broke
overestimating the stupidity of the American public".
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RandySF
(82,137 posts)7. We're going to quote pro-Nazi anti-Semites now?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)8. It says a lot about us as a society....
When the thought of electability is worthy of discussion when the other side is the republicans. It just amazes me that tens of millions will vote republican.
oasis
(53,432 posts)9. As Aesop said "the fox went hungry underestimating the taste of those grapes"
betsuni
(28,888 posts)10. Sneaky edit there. You wrote "the intelligence of the American public" first.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)11. He's got the whole quote wrong anyway.
Which kind of ruins whatever point he was trying to make lol.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)12. Is this the part where we start attacking democratic voters? nt
MineralMan
(150,864 posts)13. Attacking Democratic voters' intelligence or taste
is not a winning strategy, you should understand. Apparently, you do not.
A big fail is what this post is.
mcar
(45,812 posts)14. So Democratic voters are stupid
As you know, the quote says "intelligence" not taste. Nice broad brush insult of democrats.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)15. When I looked it up on the google internet tubes, it said, "taste."
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)17. A lot of American's have a taste for well financed politics-as-usual as displayed by Hillary.
A lot of us don't.