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" )

A haughty attitude toward low wage workers

I listened with disgust  Thursday ( Nov. 5 ) as our Talk-Radio reactionaries commented on this nation wide protest against poverty wages in the fast food industry. These two bit, bought and   sold celebrities never fail to show a haughty disdain for th
e struggles of ordinary working class people- not for  the   " good life " but for basic human dignity.
        They all accept without question the ruling class lie of wealth creation. As if Mother Nature created plutocrats to lord over the common people.  Real economic science deals with objectively measurable quantities like resources, technology and
labor time.  It does not -in the spirit of superstition- recognize the Magic of the Rich & Famous. Even talent in all its forms can be reduced to training time and calories. The finest brain is powered by the energy equivalent of a dull light bulb.
         In a socialist society any talent for exploitation and lying will be discouraged. To be sure !