Good-and-Hard-istan
David Michael Green notices the deeply regressive state of degradation we currently find ourselves in: “How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out For You?”
H. L. Mencken, back in 1916, wrote: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
So, if you want things to go your way, you dupe the “common people” into thinking they should want what you want (e.g., don’t tax the rich, dismantle public policy, deregulate), and once they agree, you give it to them good and hard. That’s where we’re at now: we’re gettin’ it good and hard.