About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, 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 earlier:
“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.”From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to 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, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage”
So far to my knowledge Alexander Tyler’s predictions have never failed to come true and I am surprised that the US made it for as long and as well as it did, but it is beginning to show an ever increasing amount of damage to its original greatness as well as concept which gradually is being eroded until the time, sad to say; when the US will only be a shadow of its former self. All I can say is, enjoy it for as long as you are able to as I believe we have left the best of times behind us and are in the process of gradually killing the goose which laid the golden eggs due to poor management of our inheritance.
That is because we were founded as a Republic. All the Founders knew that democracies were evil, as did Alexander Tyler, and would lead to tyranny of the majority always. Some brilliant Athenians knew it, also.
We destroyed our Republic in 1912 with the “Progressive” Wilson who demolished all the protections of our Constitutional Republic from the “System” (Leviathan). The “legal” system became corrupted, as did Words (Language) so the Marxists could erase all our Traditions and Constitution. As Judge Napolitano stated in his book on Wilson and Roosevelt, the elite psychopaths completely destroyed our System—our Constitution.
We need to destroy the “Federal” “Reserve” (lol) and take back coining of money, and remove the Marxist “income” tax and IRS, etc. All the unconstitutional Marxist bureaucracies have to go. We are funding our own demise and the destruction of the minds of our own children with the Dept. of Education—another unconstitutional Marxist system of mass indoctrination, as was Dewey’s evil (de) Humanist curricula.