Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and… - H. L. Mencken

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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right...The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.