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Why Democracy Is Overrated
IWB ^ | Daniel Carter

Posted on 01/21/2018 6:48:41 AM PST by davikkm

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To: myerson

So you think the EC means nothing?


21 posted on 01/21/2018 9:56:27 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Yosemitest
Exactly:

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage”. — Alexander Fraser Tytler – (1747 – 1813) – Professor of Universal History, Greek and Roman Antiquities – University of Edinburgh


22 posted on 01/21/2018 12:40:55 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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To: Yosemitest

“we’ll so weaken your economy
that you will fall like over ripe fruit into our hands. “

How’d that work out, Niki?

L


23 posted on 01/21/2018 12:42:46 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Swordmaker

That’s a great quote !


24 posted on 01/21/2018 10:53:46 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Lurker

Under the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF, it was right on schedule !


25 posted on 01/21/2018 10:54:36 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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