“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” ~ H. L. Mencken
We have a Maryland representative to Congress - a physician - who voted to increase the level of lead allowed in children's toys imported from China. A DOCTOR, mind you! He got re-elected.
ReplyDeleteUp here, a party with a well earned reputation for bigotry wants to 'values test' new immigrants - a test their own members couldn't pass.
ReplyDeleteThe older I get, the more I know about politics, the less I understand.
First, we kill all the lawyers...
ReplyDeleteIf we kill all the lawyers who can we sue when the doctor allowed lead gets really high on the toys? Personally I like Greece where it is illegal NOT to vote.
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