There, I Fixed It For You

[elfs]

"Democracy will come to an end when the peopleour monied coporations learn they can vote themselves money from the public treasury." - Alexander Tyler, 1763 (with an injection by Thomas Jefferson)

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, that Tyler quotation you're modifying appears to have been created from whole cloth in the relatively recent past.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Now I am sad. Ah, well, it has a ring of truthiness. Snopes has details (http://www.lorencollins.net/tytler.html).

I still think our politicians should be required to wear their sponsors' logos on their blazers, like sports figures.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

If it's so truthy, find me an example of that process actually happening in history.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Truthiness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness) is a "truth" that a person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.

I don't believe I can, which is why it has a ring of "truthiness," and not the ring of truth.