Mitt de Tocqueville

"“Not elegantly stated.” That’s how the Republican Party’s presidential candidate described some of his words captured in the covertly-taped video in which he claimed that 47 percent of voters were in the bag for President Obama because they are “dependent on the government.” Amidst the hype and feigned outrage, however, it’s worth noting that a not-dissimilar analysis may be found (and much more elegantly stated) in a book published 172 years by the (still) greatest commentator on American political culture: the very refined and very astute French social philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville."