Refreshing H.L Mencken , old Baltimore sage

Meet the Mind of H.L. Mencken

As a U.S. citizen and a registered voter, I commend the writer of this article for his astute insight on presidential politics here. Even though I am a democratic Socialist, I must say that no American journalist surpasses that deceptively "conservative" curmudgeon, Baltimore sage, H.L. Mencken, in describing the hollow souls of successful American politicians.

Just the other night I read his scathing assessment of President Woodrow Wilson: "Archangel Wilson." Wilson's hollow rhetoric got us into the Great War- "the war to end all wars ... the war to make the world safe for democracy."

And no socialist writer wrote with more bone-deep contempt for our own American plutocracy than H.L. Mencken. They had money and nothing else, he thought. He believed in a "natural aristocracy" of brains and breeding. But don't look for it here!

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( WATCHING AMERICA, comment on article published in Die Zeit (Germany) on Jan.12, 2015 by Martin Klingst , "Romney Should Drop Out for His Own Good" )