re: #800 cliffster

The class envy is strong and the Democrats are on it like sharks to blood. It’s very sad. Instead of putting force a positive message - “we want everyone to succeed, and live their dreams”, it’s “those money grubbing rich sit in lavish hotels drinking expensive champagne paid for with YOUR HARD WORK while you can’t make your car payment”. Very sad.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy. If these villains could be put down, he holds, he would at once become rich, powerful and eminent. Nine politicians out of every ten, of whatever party, live and have their being by promising to perform this putting down. In brief, they are knaves who maintain themselves by preying on the idiotic vanities and pathetic hopes of half-wits.
– H. L. Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun, June 15, 1936