Wit & Attitude Quote by Frank Dane

Democracy gets roasted in a single sentence here, not with grand theory but with a street-smart sneer. Frank Dane’s line works because it refuses the comforting myth that elections reliably sort wisdom from noise. It suggests the opposite: that “fools” aren’t an accidental byproduct of politics but an exploitable voting bloc, a lever you can pull to move the whole system.

The phrasing is doing more than sounding cynical. “Get” implies strategy, acquisition, even ownership; the electorate is cast as something to be captured rather than persuaded. “All the fools” is deliberately blunt, a provocation meant to puncture the polite language of “swing voters” and “low-information voters.” Dane isn’t diagnosing a few bad apples, he’s pointing to a scalable recipe: assemble a coalition built on credulity, and offices become prizes you can win regardless of competence.

The subtext is about incentives. If charisma, grievance, or spectacle can recruit the easily misled, then truth becomes optional and accountability becomes theater. The kicker is “anything,” a word that widens the target from a small-town race to the presidency, from governance to celebrity politics. It’s a warning about the fragility of institutions when popularity is mistaken for merit.

Contextually, the quote sits comfortably in the long tradition of American and British political sarcasm: the Mencken-style suspicion that mass politics rewards performance over seriousness. Dane’s sting isn’t that fools exist; it’s that the system can be optimized for them.