"Democracy makes it possible for the demagogue to inflame the childish imagination of the masses by virtue of his talent for nonsense."......And, yes, as usual, Mencken nails it; the fact that a behavior (i.e., stealing) which under any other circumstances would be seen as a vice and immoral suddenly becomes a virtue when a sufficient number of folks vote on it.
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