Quote of the Day

[Ghetta Life]

"[W]hen a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men 
of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact 
that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending 
any save the most elemental--men whose whole thinking is done in terms of 
emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. 
So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... 
[A]ll the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and 
mediocre--the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is 
a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As 
democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the 
inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. 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 adorned by a downright moron."

H. L. Mencken, in the Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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