A breif history of democracy

[thewoz]

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitutions 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 simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.   A democracy will continue to exist up until the time voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.  From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates that 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 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 Olsen from Hamlin University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of states won by:     Gore: 19; Bush: 29
Number of square miles of land won by:     Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:     Gore: 127,000,000; Bush: 143,000,000
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:    Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1

   Professor Olsen adds, ?In aggregate, the map of the territory of Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country.  Gores territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off of various forms of government welfare.? 
   Olsen believes the United States of America 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 ?government dependency? phase.
   If  Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to 20,0000,000 criminal invaders called illegals, and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the United States of America as we know it.

Theodore Roosevelt?s idea?s on Immigration and being an American in 1907

   ?In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes her in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.  But this is predicated upon the person?s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American?..There can be no divided allegiance here.  Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn?t an American at all.  We have room for but one flag, the American flag??We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language?..and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is the loyalty to the American people.?


I personally feel we are somewhere between apathy and dependency.  What is your feedback?
theWOZ

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Theodore Roosevelt can kiss my ass.

And the rest of America is lazily enjoying their apathetic dependency while the chains are being installed.