[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Responsibility2nd:

The Eight Steps in the Evolution of Democracy (Professor
Alexander Tyler, 1787)
These eight steps were written in 1787 by Professor Alexander Tyler.
The United States was in the planning process of a young and fragile Democracy.
So, this Professor took a look at the past and tried to map out the evolution of a Democracy.
He determined a time line for these eight steps and an estimate of how long the process would take, 200 years.

* From bondage to spiritual faith;
* From spiritual faith to great courage;
* From courage to liberty;
* From liberty to abundance;
* From abundance to complacency;
* From complacency to apathy;
* From apathy to dependence;
* From dependence back into bondage.

[Responsibility2nd]

Gee, I wonder which step America is on right now?

/s

[kitkat]

EXCELLENT!

Thank you.

[frogjerk]

we are in the later parts of those steps indeed

[uncommonsense]

* From state bondage to spiritual faith;
* From spiritual faith to great courage against state bondage;
* From courage to liberty from state bondage;
* From liberty to abundance apart from state interference;
* From abundance to complacency on growing state interference;
* From complacency to apathy on state bondage;
* From apathy to state dependence;
* From dependence back into state bondage.