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dweller

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5. if you are going to quote Mencken

Reply to KS Toronado (Reply #4)

Sun May 24, 2020, 09:30 PM

May 2020

best get it right ...

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
"A Few Pages of Notes," The Smart Set (January 1915); later published in A Little Book in C major (1916), and A Mencken Crestomathy (1949)

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Insightful 100 year old Prophecy [View all] KS Toronado May 2020 OP

Wow. Too bad he didn't go on to tell us what to do about it. marybourg May 2020 #1

quote is incorrect dweller May 2020 #2

WOW, thanks for the heads up, did a web search and you are correct KS Toronado May 2020 #4

if you are going to quote Mencken dweller May 2020 #5

Only one problem Kaiserguy May 2020 #3