Forget Mencken,  Upton Sinclair has the quote for these times:  


“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary (or handout) depends on his not understanding it.”

Employees of ak.gov, together with throngs receiving handouts from the public trough, have combined to form a voting bloc that will soon deliver our socialist utopia.  It happened in resource-rich Venesuela and will eventually happen here.