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Paraphrasing Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson once said that the government you elect is the government you deserve. But what Americans will soon find out is how H. L. Mencken, called the American Nietzsche, paraphrased him: ‘Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard’.

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