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Someone, long ago, once said,"Democracy works only so long until the people find out that they can vote themselves largesse through (from) the government".
Can't recall who it was . . .

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...Can't recall who it was . . .

FYI...

Alexander Fraser Tyler (1747–1813)
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until {a majority of} the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse {gifts} 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 {taxing and spending}, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”