A Scary Obituary for the American Democracy

 
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: 

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent  form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. "

"From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."


During those 200 years, these nations always 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 complacency; 

From complacency to apathy; 

From apathy to dependence; 

From dependence back into bondage."

The Obituary follows:

Born 1776, Died 2016
  
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Obama: 19 Romney: 29
 
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 Romney: 2,427,000
 
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million Romney: 143 million
 
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 Romney: 2.1

Professor Olson adds:

"In aggregate, the map of the territory Romney won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country."

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the
"complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of
democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.



 
 If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.

If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at
stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom..
This is truly scary!

Of course we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic .
Someone should point this out to Obama.

Of course we know he and too many others pay little attention to The Constitution.

There couldn't be more at stake than on Nov 6, 2012.




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 If you are as concerned as I am please pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom....




Source:  http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002611245



*This is a Canadian blog that is cognizant of Canada's close relationship with the U.S.A., our major trading partner and NATO ally....  Our fortunes are closely tied and we share democratic ideals, so let's hope the letter's dire predictions are inaccurate....  or that with the caution, people will alter their behavior and loop back to the "Liberty to abundance" phase.