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And as oil gets higher we will use less of it and develop other sources of energy and the Middle east will revert back to the backwater of the world that it has been since Mohammad rode out of the desert.

In all of history the average time of a government has been but 250 years, Democracy as we know it is a new experiment. We have already declined from a republic to a democracy. What ever the form no government survives ruled by the everyday whim of the masses. Unfortunately most people from their experience think they are unique and that a significant change will not occur in their life time. they ignore history at their peril.

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We have already declined from a republic to a democracy. What ever the form no government survives ruled by the everyday whim of the masses


How very noble of you. I take it you are not one of the masses and your voice should be heard?

I look at it as an evolution. We have moved to a higher form of government.

In your view then Rome rose to a higher form of government when they shook off the tatters of the repressive Republic and donned the imperial robes then. To me that was a decline. When we turned away form the King and choose our own way that was an improvement to you it would seem a decline. The more power the people have received the stronger the country has become.

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In all of history the average time of a government has been but 250 years


And most of those that fell fell from within due to rank corruption, repressiveness, and elitism before any conquering force can close to its borders.