Early in the 20th century, there was a famous columnist known as H.L. Mencken. Two of his quotes are currently quite applicable.
Number one: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Number two: “No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
I point this out because we live in a representative democracy, so when we see spectacles like what we saw in the House of Representatives yesterday, it’s important to remember that these are all elected representatives of the United States.
We have filled Washington, D.C., with complete imbeciles. This is our fault because we vote for them. The fact is that…
