Ravenskeep
10-20-2008, 12:52 PM
HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?
This is the most interesting thing I have read in a long time. The sad thing about it is, you can see it coming.
About the time our original thirteen 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 2000 years earlier:
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simple can not exist as a permanent form of government.”
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover 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 treasure, 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, those 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 Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul MN, points out these facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
• Number of states won by Democrats – 19
• Number of states won by Republicans – 29
• Square miles of land won by Democrats – 580,000
• Square miles of land won by Republicans – 2,427,000
• Population of counties won by Democrats – 127,000,000
• Population of counties won by Republicans – 143,000,00
• Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Democrats – 13.2
• Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Republicans – 2.1
Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won was mostly the land owned by taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…”
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between 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.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals, and they vote, we can say goodbye to the democratic republic of the USA in fewer than five years.
This is the most interesting thing I have read in a long time. The sad thing about it is, you can see it coming.
About the time our original thirteen 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 2000 years earlier:
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simple can not exist as a permanent form of government.”
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover 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 treasure, 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, those 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 Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul MN, points out these facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
• Number of states won by Democrats – 19
• Number of states won by Republicans – 29
• Square miles of land won by Democrats – 580,000
• Square miles of land won by Republicans – 2,427,000
• Population of counties won by Democrats – 127,000,000
• Population of counties won by Republicans – 143,000,00
• Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Democrats – 13.2
• Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Republicans – 2.1
Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won was mostly the land owned by taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…”
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between 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.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals, and they vote, we can say goodbye to the democratic republic of the USA in fewer than five years.