In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinborough, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
\n“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.”<\/p>\n
“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:<\/p>\n
From bondage to spiritual faith;
\nFrom spiritual faith to great courage;
\nFrom courage to liberty;
\nFrom liberty to abundance;
\nFrom abundance to complacency;
\nFrom complacency to apathy;
\nFrom apathy to dependence;
\nFrom dependence back into bondage.”
\nThe Obituary follows:<\/p>\n
Born 1776, Died 2012
\nIt doesn’t hurt to read this several times.<\/p>\n
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:<\/p>\n
Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
\nSquare miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
\nPopulation of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
\nMurder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2
\nMcCain: 2.1<\/p>\n
Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was
\nMostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.<\/p>\n
Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income
\nTenements and living off various forms of government welfare…”<\/p>\n
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the
\n“complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy,
\nWith some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached
\nThe “governmental dependency” phase.<\/p>\n
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal
\nInvaders called illegal’s – and they vote – then we can say goodbye to the
\nUSA in fewer than five years.<\/p>\n
If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.<\/p>\n
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..<\/p>\n
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 2012.<\/p>\n
(This was not fact checked and is intended for humor only.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinborough, 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[2163,2164],"class_list":["post-5813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-democracy-collapse-over-loose-fiscal-policy","tag-obituary-for-america"],"yoast_head":"\n