And the above #10 is a fine example of yet another bitter, hate-filled jealous socialist/Marxist, desperately clinging to the promises of universal health care, impatiently waiting for BHO to redistribute wealth.

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when will the piece of shit die already? [EDITOR'S NOTE: The remainder of this comment has been removed. There is no need for this kind of hate speech, coming as it does from the same people who claim to hold "peace" and "tolerance" as guiding principles.]

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From the Department of Pulling “Facts” Out Of Your Backside:

Mencken was talking about liberals “Arthur.”

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I’m sure Mencken was just using “public” as a euphemism for socialist liberals like yourself Artie.

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The full quote is:

“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. “

Basically translated as “People can easily be persuaded to accept the most inferior ideas or useless products”.

I always had two problems with this quote.

1: It comes from the notion that the ordinary citizen is incapable of making sound decisions for their own lives… a typical liberal/progressive notion that drives their govt control from cradle to grave policies.

2: We can most certainly “lose money” by underestimating the intelligence by oppressive socialist welfare policies

It was not as applicable during Mencke’s time as now because we had not descended so far into the rising acceptance of the socialist trend.

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I’m sure Mencken was just using “public” as a euphemism for socialist liberals like yourself Artie.

Odd you would want to quote an elitist like Mencken.

Birds of a feather?

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Mike opined:

Mencken was talking about liberals “Arthur.”

He was talking about the ‘American public’ Mike.

A group you seem endlessly proud to associate with.

Can you not read?

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Mencken was talking about liberals “Arthur.”

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“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” -

— Henry Mencken

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I wonder how much the NYT costs?

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