Quote of the Day

[LowDown]

My basic point of view…went back to my early teens, and has never changed in any essential during the half century since. Under the influence of my father…I emerged into sentience with an almost instinctive distrust of all schemes of revolution and reform. They were, to me, only signs and symptoms of a fundamental hallucination, to wit, the hallucination that human nature could be changed by passing statutes and preaching gospels—that natural law could be repealed by taking thought.

—H.L. Mencken on socialism in 1910, as quoted by Edward Short in “Heavens on Earth, the creation of perfection, American-style” at the Weekly Standard, a review of Paradise Now — The Story of American Utopianism, by Chris Jennings.

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[Harry Guerrilla]

—H.L. Mencken on socialism in 1910, as quoted by Edward Short in “Heavens on Earth, the creation of perfection, American-style” at the Weekly Standard, a review of Paradise Now — The Story of American Utopianism, by Chris Jennings.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/238191/

Mencken was less "anti socialism" but rather was more anti idealism.
He more or less loathed idealists, because they were full of ****.