Posted on 11/05/2008 9:55:05 AM PST by Main Street
The Dems platform to an Obama victory.
REMEMBER THIS:
Quote: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse 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, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage." - Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1714-1778)
United States of America: 1776-2008
Socialist States of America: 2009-
You Biblical scholars, correct me if I am wrong. The Hebrews were freed from Egypt only by the leadership of Moses, and man who had been raised as an adopted son by an Egyptian priness — and he had a heck of a time trying to motivate the children of Israel to return to their own religion, and head home. There was complaining and kvetching all the way.
Similarly, the Babylonian captivity did not end because the Hebrews were spritually enlightened by their bondage. It was because an outside invader (Cyrus the Persian) happened to come in and destroy the Babylonian rule. Only then could the Hebrews return home.
We indeed have lost much of our freedom.
I have a simple, somewhat humorous way of making this point without being too aggressive about it. When I want to encourage someone, I tell then, “Sure, go ahead. After all, it’s a partly free country.”
This slight modification of an old, familiar expression always gets attention, and a look of unaccustomed thoughtfulness will often result.
...and the ‘purer’ the democracy the more unstable the government. We are probably like a star going ‘nova’.
For those that don't know, a constitutional republic is sometimes referred to as indirect democracy. You've missed the point of the quotation.
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