How Long Do We Have?
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 2,000
years earlier:
'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
they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public
treasury.'
'From that moment on, the majority always vote 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 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'
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Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St.
Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the
2000 Presidential
election:
Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans:
2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats:
13.2 Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory
Republican won
was mostly the land owned by the 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 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.
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