In 1887
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 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
over 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."
The Obituary
follows:
Born 1776, Died 2012
It doesn't hurt to read this several
times.
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A Republic is a government controlled by
laws and limited in it's powers, as is our
Constitution and Bill Of Rights. A true
Democracy is a government controlled
by a majority vote regardless of law. A
Republic protects minorities from the
majority vote. A Democracy is controlled
by the emotions and desires of the majority.
To better understand these political principles,
think of it on the smaller scale of a family,
school classroom or business. Everyone has
an equal vote. A family Democracy does
what the majority wants to do concerning
cleanliness, meals, school, drugs, toilet, etc.
At school, the students' votes have equal
weight with the teacher's. In A business,
the employees' votes are equal to the owner's
vote.
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