That being said, I think the quote applies to Davis quite well but it is a gross simplification to imply that all politicians are evil, as Mencken often did. It is this cynicism which makes people lose their public spirit and become more suseptible to liberal demagoguery which will "save" them from all the "threats" they are faced with.
I didn't mean anything against you, so I hope you don't take offense :)
No, I don't take reasonable, rational discussion personal. I like Mencken's wit and sharp pen. If I truly thought that
all politicians were really evil, I wouldn't vote. I am a realist; I know that politics involves a lot of corrupt practises; so did the guys who wrote the Constitution, That's why they tried to build in safeguards of liberty like the Separation of Powers, like the Bill of Rights, like the limits on taxation, like the overall limits on government authority, like relatively short terms of office, so career politicians could not establish tyranny.
The fact that the bastards have circumvented nearly all of these protections does give me pause to reflect on just where we are going with this nation. I don't like what I see and I do not think we can restore any sense of the truly free Republic that the Founder's envisioned wthout some really serious work. Too many vermin on the take from the public treasury.
What's even more disturbing is that the politics that Mencken described nearly a hundred years ago suggests that we have long ago lost the Republic and we're too blinded by the process to realize it. How's that for a dose of cynicism?