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H.L. Mencken wrote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Mencken didn’t go far enough. Even a despot has to rely on the cooperation of a great many people and on the apathy of the rest. Past revolutions (e.g., American, Bolshevik) were […]
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