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To: beaversmom

FYI-

In 1787, Alexander Tytler of the University of Edinborough wrote that all
democracies go through eight stages, two hundred years being the average cycle
time. The stages are:

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 to bondage.


We’re facing a Perfect Storm. The above stages do not account for economic turmoil/collapse.


80 posted on 07/27/2013 11:54:34 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: laplata

I’ve seen those stages before somewhere...probably on FR. :) Thank you for the reminder. Not sure what to do. Don’t think there’s any real way to prepare. Just have to live one day at a time and do a little bit of pretend head in the sand at times to cope.


81 posted on 07/27/2013 11:59:24 PM PDT by beaversmom
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