We Can't Have Anything Nice.

The worst thing about America by far happens to be Americans. For as H.L. Mencken said "The common man is a fool". I fear Mencken may have been right, my proof of that is America itself and the American populace never ending ability to fuck things up for themselves. Which most certainly has to do with how uneducated the American public is, and how anti-intellectual we are in general once again to quote Mr. Mencken "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public". It speaks volumes that if you really want to make money in the country you have to assume that every single America is an idiot. And for the most part they may be right, ye God on High just look at the popularity of a certain politician from Alaska.

Is it so wrong for us to have nice things? In other places the people can have nice things, functioning health care, education systems, clean reliable public transportation system, even clean public restrooms. But why not here? I've given you my answer to that question, that for the most part the American public is too stupid to have anything nice with out screwing it up. But I feel like that answer is too easy and a bit of a cop out. I think its also the fact that Americans are hypocritical again as our friend Mr. Mencken said "The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth". This is most seen in the activities of the Tea-Baggers and many other conservatives, especially Republicans, who preach about virtues of freedom, and liberty but when given the chance to rule do anything but that, and God help us if they were ever given the power they really want, we'd all end up in places that would make Dachau look like a summer camp.

I write this post seemingly without meaning or direction mostly because its nearing 5am and I'm sitting here bored and somewhat depressed. I'm not even sure if I even believe in democracy anymore, because to have one that functions you need an educated population, which American doesn't have. Once more I leave you with the words of H.L. Mencken, I don't agree with everything he has ever said or even some of the quotes of his I have used, but this one... this one, if there were ever a truer statement I have yet to run across it, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard".

God help us all.