In 1887
Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at
the
University of
Edinburgh, had
this to say about the fall of
the
Athenian
Republic some
2,000 years prior: "A democracy is
always
temporary
in nature; it simply cannot exist as a
permanent
form of
government. A democracy will continue to exist
up until
the time
that voters discover that they can vote
themselves generous
gifts
from the public treasury. From that moment on,
the majority
always
votes for the candidates who promise the most
benefits from
the
public treasury, with the result that every
democracy will finally
collapse
over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always
followed by a
dictatorship."
"The
average age of the world's greatest
civilizations from the
beginning
of history, has been about 200 years. During
those 200
years,
these nations always progressed through the
following sequence:
From bondage to
spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to
great courage;
From courage to
liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From
abundance to complacency;
From complacency to
apathy;
From apathy to
dependence;
From dependence back into
bondage."
The Obituary follows:
Born
1776, Died 2012
It doesn't hurt to read this
several times.
Professor Joseph Olson of
Hamline University School of Law
in
St.
Paul,
Minnesota, points
out some interesting facts
concerning
the last
Presidential election:
Number of States
won by: Obama: 19 Romney: 29
Square miles of
land won by: Obama: 580,000 Romney:
2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Obama: 127 million Romney: 143 million
Murder
rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Obama: 13.2 Romney: 2.1
Professor Olson
adds: "In aggregate, the map of the
territory
Romney
won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying
citizens
of the
country.
Obama
territory mostly encompassed those citizens
living in low
income
tenements and living off various forms of
government
welfare..."
Olson
believes the United States is now somewhere
between the
"complacency and apathy"
phase of Professor Tyler's definition
of
democracy,
with some forty percent of the nation's
population
already
having reached the "governmental dependency"
phase.
If
Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to
twenty million
criminal
invaders called illegals - and they vote - then
we can say
goodbye to
the USA in fewer than five
years.
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