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Welcome back to 1922:

...He likes money and knows how to amass property, but his cultural development is but little above that of the domestic animals. He is intensely and cocksurely moral, but his morality and his self-interest are crudely identical...He is a violent nationalist and patriot, but he admires rogues in office and always beats the tax-collector if he can. He has immovable opinions about all the great affairs of state, but nine-tenths of them are sheer imbecilities. He is violently jealous of what he conceives to be his rights, but brutally disregardful of the other fellow's...Thus man, whether city or country bred, is the normal Americano - the 100 percent...He exists in all countries, but here alone he rules... - HL Mencken, "On Being An American", 1922 (essay appears in 'Prejudices, Fourth Series'.

Welcome to the Bush country. Welcome to the Confederate States of Moronica. One Nation asleep under a Bush.

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