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 illegals and they vote - then we can say goodbye to
the USA in fewer than five years.
This is truly scary! Of course we are not a democracy, we
are a Constitutional Republic .Someone should point this out to Obama.
Of course we know he and too many others pay little
attention to The Constitution. There couldn't be more at stake than on Nov 6,
2012.
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