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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 McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Obama: 13.2 McCain:
2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the
territory McCain 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 illegal's - and they vote - then we can say
goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years."
