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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mencken had a lot of good one liners

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

If the purpose of a system is what it does, then it seems the purpose of democracy is the self flagellation of the masses.