common people

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

That, as you know, evolved in the U.S. after the War of Independence to exclude the common people from participation in the political process and to favor and support the elites.

Taverner is icy “so when she does screw up, something slips out, it’s a sort of embarrassment — using the words of common people.”

The elite are the only ones who can be allowed to read what they want, but common people will get censorship.

“The country is waking up to the growth and spectacle of what government has become. It’s not for the common people anymore. The government doesn’t need to be in my wallet.”