The same way that H.L. Mencken did, of course:
“[Politicians] are seldom if ever moved by anything rationally describable as public spirit; there is actually no more public spirit among them than among so many burglars or street-walkers. Their purpose, first, last and all the time, is to promote their private advantage, and to that end, and that end alone, they exercise all the vast powers that are in their hands . . . . Putting a new [politician or bureaucrat] to work decreases the wages of every wage-earner in the land. Giving a [politician or bureaucrat] more power takes something away from the liberty of all of us.”
1:32 pm on November 4, 2014
