[La Lydia]

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship."-- Alexander Fraser Tyler, "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic"

[La Lydia]

Whoops. I misspelled his name. He is Alexander Fraser Tytler.

[Welcome2thejungle]

Excellent. To the point. And said in a hell of lot less words than I used to express this very point.