The "Death of Democracy"

[JTHunter]

This is something that I had printed up years ago that I just re-discovered while doing some "clean-up". It is from 20 years ago but it still has relevancy. I'm just afraid that we are well beyond the "state of affairs" this describes.

Death of Democracy

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 Empire" 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 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."

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts from the 2000 Presidential election:

Population of counties won by:
Gore = 127 million - - - Bush = 143 million

Square miles of land won by:
Gore = 580,000 - - - Bush = 2,427,000

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.

[imanaknut]

That does seem ominous, but there is one thing the founders gave those of us who want to retain our freedoms that no VEveother government gave them, a constitution with a second amendment that a good majority of freedom loving people are taking advantage of.

Even though the government has tried to limit the second amendment, there are enough people out there that God forbid it ever happens, will stand up and return this country back to it's root. Probably for another 200 years or so and the cycle will start all over again, assuming the idiots in charge don't start the final war, the true war that will not only end all wars but life as we care to know it.