American Democracy

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    I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    I swear to the Lord
    I still can’t see
    Why Democracy means
    Everybody but me.
    Langston Hughes (1902–1967)