Interesting read, especially for liberals:
At about the time our original 13 states adopted
their new
constitution, in the year 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 worlds 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."
> >
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline
University School of Law,
St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts
concerning the
most recent Presidential election:
> > Population of counties won by:
> > Gore=127 million
> > Bush=143 million
> >
> > Square miles of land won by:
> > Gore=580,000
> > Bush=2,2427,000
> >
> > 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 U.S. 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 in this Election Year and that apathy is the
greatest danger to
our freedom. |
