HELLLLLP with a quote

[mark414]

what's that quote...this isn't going to be helpful but..

something about someday the masses will get their wish and an idiot will be elected president?

[Kipepeo]

1. ???

But some good ones...

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses." - Malcolm X

"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby." - Henry Louis Mencken

"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." - Giordano Bruno

[Lexingtonian]

2. it's by Mencken

"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
(1880-1956)

[LynnTheDem]

4. And now it's happened. No wonder the rightwingnuts are REJOICING!

They finally got their "downright moron"!

[jfern]

3. I'm sure Nietzsche has some similar comments

[Historic NY]

5. from his writings

The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. 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

[ConcernedNonpartisan]

6. The first rule

of Murphy's law is that every "man" shall rise to his own level of incompetence.

This past election and subsequent appointments are no exception to the rule.

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. The Peter Principle

Shortly after the book was published, someone (perhaps it was Dr. Peter himself) offered the corrolary, to wit:

Therefore, in time, it stands to reason that eventually all positions of authority will be occupied by someone who is incompetent.

I really didn't think it would happen THIS quickly, though...