Good and hard

First, Brian Gable from Friday's Globe and Mail:


Now, here are a few apt H. L. Mencken quotes about politics and democracy:

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

And finally, my personal favorite:

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