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Discussion Boards => Off-Topic => Topic started by: cateyes1 on October 23, 2013, 08:23:55 am
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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 freedom.
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and
to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
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Wow that is very interesting to read about. Thanks
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I read that on facebook. Yes it is scary, but actually this country was not founded to be a democracy, but a republic. Somehow it got distorted.
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This is mostly false.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/athenian.asp
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I read that on facebook. Yes it is scary, but actually this country was not founded to be a democracy, but a republic. Somehow it got distorted.
Thank YOU, southernhorizons!!! A REPUBLIC!!! Something way too many people today have no idea we were BORN AS and still ARE!