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.
