Brilliant: Mencken’s Definition of Democracy

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Date & Time Posted: 3/25/2002 12:51:29 AM
Mencken"s Definition of Democracy

Hi everyone,
someone sent me this. Its hillarious.
Jan

Well, the Africans wanted “Democracy” and H.L. Mencken once defined “Democracy” as follows:

The theory that two thieves will steal less than one, and three less than two, and four less than three, and so on ad infinitum; the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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