Democracy...Lost

 

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 2012
It doesn't
hurt to read this several times.
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 illegals - and they vote - then we can say
goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.