<bq author="Hunter S. Thompson" caption="Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, ’72" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/30/roaming-charges-high-anxiety/" source="CounterPunch">The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage and whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office and sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.</bq>