As democracy is perfected, the office of 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’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. – H.L. Mencken
The fact about the current collapse of the American Empire which I think many intelligent people are missing is, Americans as a group wanted extremely stupid people in charge because they themselves are extremely stupid, and their idea of “democracy” is rule by people like them, ie extremely stupid. That’s why they’re resistant to recognizing Trump’s being allowed to run around naked, shaking his dick at everyone else in the world, as a debacle; to admit their Dear Leader is a dangerous and demented imbecile is to admit that their entire Weltanschauung is defective. As Asimov expressed it:
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
