Posted by
Rick Sunderland on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:00:17 AM
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'
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.
Mr. Obama, and the thinly veiled socialism he represents, means only extorting the wealth of those who've earned it to buy the votes of those who haven't. Remember, we could completely confiscate the wealth of the top 40% (in net worth) of people in this country and it wouldn't even keep the Federal Government going for a year. We've "spread the wealth around" to the tune of 6 to 7 TRILLION DOLLARS since LBJ started large scale indiscriminate welfare and the poverty rates have remained between the same 4 percentage points since he left office ... astounding considering that we've seen the largest economic expansion in human history during that period. Anybody that tells you they're going to make a dent in real poverty through socialist redistribution, which has been endlessly tried and has never once worked, might as well be selling you a bridge. The first modern welfare state was created by Bismarck (yes, the guy the Nazis named the battleship after) to make people so dependent on the government that they didn't dare question it. Not much has changed.
Speaking of a permanent Democrat voting underclass, if Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million illegal aliens and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA as we know it within a few election cycles.