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The Wizard

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2. The great dumbing down started with Spiro Agnew and George Wallace

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Mon May 5, 2025, 07:08 AM

May 5

back in 1968. Somehow ignorance became equal to knowledge.
"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 whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

H. L. Mencken

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