Posted: 9/12/2013 10:31:02 AM EDT
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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" St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election: Number of States won by: Obama: 19 Romney: 29 Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 Romney: 2,427,000 Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million Romney: 143 million Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 Romney: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Romney won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income 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.  |
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Although contractually we have a representative republic, it seems we look more and more like a democracy or some form of it, every day. More like an oligarchy. Quoted:
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Thankfully we don't live in a democracy. More like an oligarchy. 
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Snopes is a liberal BS site. |
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Thankfully we don't live in a democracy. Of course we do. We long-abandoned mixed government in this country. The process of democratization began pretty much as soon as the last of the Founding Generation were leaving politics and public life. By then the ideas of the French Revolution had landed here and had taken root. |
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You must have an app that triggers an alarm every time a thread like this pops up. 
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Thankfully we don't live in a democracy. lol You must have an app that triggers an alarm every time a thread like this pops up.
My spidey sense was tingling. |