Perfect Democracy

                 “As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.”                       - H. L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920


Mencken would have predicted the apathy of the “plain folks”… he lived through the 20th century’s most hellish wars and opined:

             "The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights".