{"id":8706,"date":"2013-06-16T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/16\/h-l-mencken-on-the-perfection-of-democracy\/"},"modified":"2013-06-16T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T16:32:00","slug":"h-l-mencken-on-the-perfection-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/16\/h-l-mencken-on-the-perfection-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"H. L. Mencken on the Perfection of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&quot;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\u2019s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.&quot; \u2013 &#8211; H. L. Mencken, <em>The Baltimore Evening Sun<\/em>, July 26, 1920&#0160; (Via Bill Keezer, via <a href=\"http:\/\/keithburgess-jackson.typepad.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/from-the-mailbag.html\" target=\"_self\">Keith Burgess-Jackson<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The great and glorious day is come, my friends, and we finally have the president we deserve.&#0160; God help us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/quotes\/mencken.asp\" target=\"_self\">Snopes<\/a>, the above quotation is not verbatim, but it&#0160;is accurate in the main.&#0160; See Snopes for context.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;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\u2019s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.&quot; \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/16\/h-l-mencken-on-the-perfection-of-democracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;H. L. Mencken on the Perfection of Democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}