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:
- 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
I dont pay much attention to articles like that. Youy can tell right upfront that the writer has an agenda is his/her writing. They called our country a DEMOCRACY, the founding father fround upon democracy because it is a crass unreasonable system of MOB RULE, two wolves and a sheep voting on whats for DINNER. OUR COUNTRY is a DEMOCRATICE REPUBLIC which is why it has lasted through war, famine, catastrophic events, Moovements, and various political boondoggles and is still chugging along. READ YOUR CONSTITUTION!! Go to the CATO foundations website and you can buy them ten at a time for .99cents ea. thats a dollar well spent! Carry it in your pocket read it, learn it and remember it when you see those political HACKS on cspan arguing unconstitutional law on YOUR BEHALF!! Your reaction should be a hasty letter, phone call or email to your reps and sens. telling them NO YOU CANT VOTE FOR THAT IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Soon, you will see YOUR country return. GOD BLESS AMERICA. And if you dont like the AMERICAN way, get OUT!
Athens was also a democratic republic, what's your point?