Posted on 08/09/2013 3:37:27 PM PDT by Jyotishi
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OBITUARY?
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 2016
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.
If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom...
Honestly, I’m about ready to skip to the dictatorship part so we can get on with restoring liberty and faith.
Good article.
Well, Obama is moving into the same league as Stalin and Hitler. IMO
Pride goes before the fall.
I can remember saying to those that would listen, that other countries, rich in resources, population, and land, needed to dust themselves off, divest themselves of the slackers and corrupt politicians, and make their countries a place they want to stay in, rather than come to the USA.
Now I see how we are quickly becoming just like those other countries I thought so little of. The most frightening part is that the USA is still the last, best hope for liberty. There is no other place for us to go to in our search for a better future.
Now it is WE who must dust ourselves off, do our best to spawn a new generation of productive citizens (the current crop is pretty much a lost cause), and reign in the out of control powers of our elected officials (We need government, it just needs to be smaller and managed by better people than those currently in office.)
Can we do it? I don’t know, but it’s amazing what people can accomplish when they don’t have any other choice.
Very well put, Sergio!
Thank you my FRiend.
You’re welcome. You summed up our situation very well.
Interesting stats
This apparently is a bogus quote....
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;
From bondage to revolution.
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