Mirror of the American Soul?
“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)
Question: Does the Bush/Cheney Administration mirror the “inner soul” of the American people? Is this what we have become?
May I add these immortal words of Josiah Quincy (1744-1775) as a sort of corrolary:
In the same vein, these equally-immortal words of George Santayana (1863-1952):
I doubt it.
I think there is so much apathy out there, so much hopelessness about any real change being attainable, that the Shrubberals have a disproportionate presence in the political life of America.
We can change that, and indeed we must.