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To: hosepipe

“Looks America is no longer a Republic.. but a democracy..”

The new prez keeps calling it a ‘democracy’...I don’t think he likes that ‘Republic’ thing....


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 treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith 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 dependency, from dependency back to bondage.” Alexander Tyler


23 posted on 01/27/2009 11:14:21 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: AuntB
Running Democracys are so easy a caveman can do it..
Running a Rrepublic is so hard a caveman cannot do it..

Politically, We may be screwed..

43 posted on 01/27/2009 2:49:26 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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