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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken
Freedom, Democracies Have, People
A Little Book in C Major ch. 2 (1916)
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.