Pulling the wool over the eyes of the general public by politicians is a part of any system. The advantage of democracy: one side always tries to expose another.
That can be very much labeled under a single category. Specially from a comparative historical perspective.
There is no such thing as pure capitalistic system. We call such as a system dominated by free market and private investments.
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
To be fair though Mencken was a pro Nazi Anti Semite and his views of Afro Americans was not very enlightened although he did urge the editor of the Baltimore Sun to publish Afro American writers when said writers had limited access to white readers. A rather complex character.
