Thread: Alexander Tyler Path of Democracy

I kust wanted to throw this out. I find it interesting and timely.
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About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, 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 due to 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:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage "

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million;

Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000

States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off 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 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.


PS:

#9 If the Senate grants amnesty and citizenship to 20 million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then goodbye USA in
less than 5 years.

This is a very scary read>

To me, we've already arrived at the "apathy" stage. How the heck do we wake everyone up? Can we?

with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.


Yet they only show a 3-5% unemployment rate, this is because once they are kicked off of unemployment they go on welfare and are no longer counted as unemployed even though they are. The 3-5% only counts those that are currently collecting unemployment, not those that are unemployed.

That is why it is so important to realize that this nation's founders created a representative form of republican government and REJECTED the idea of a democracy. The country was humming along pretty well until the differences between the economies of the North and the South and the resultant tax inequities implicit in agrarian-targeted tariffs led to to the Civil War. It was not until after Lincoln suspended the Constitution and began to govern by proclamation that the powerful interests behind consolidation of federal power began chanting the mantra of "democracy." That's because they knew that the constitutional republic was pretty much bullet-proof. The cause of "democracy" eliminated one of the most essential checks on federal power by removing appointment of Senators from the state legislatures and handing it over to the democratic process via direct election.

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