H.L. Mencken – The more things change, the more they stay the same…

H.L. Mencken – The more things change, the more they stay the same…

Sometimes helpful to recognize that as bad and ‘unprecedented’ as everything seems to be these days, maybe it’s not so new after all.

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