I checked this on Snoops and did not get a
hit.
How Long Do We Have?
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 2000 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 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, 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"
We celebrated our bicentennial in 1976! Our 200 years have passed.
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory in the 200
election, Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this
great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government
welfare..."
But, with all of the recent
developments, with mud slinging on both sides, the failure of the majority of
our elected representatives in all factions of government to live up to their
campaign promises, what is the answer? We should work together as a nation, and
hang tough as a solidified group; otherwise we will hang separately, divided
into factions fighting each other, wide open for failure. (My
comment and I would vote independent except it would limit me, so I still vote
for whom I consider the best leader, sometimes the lesser of two evils )
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.
If Congress grants amnesty and
citizenship to twenty million potential invaders called illegal’s and they vote,
then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
No nation can survive as a global
power with two major languages.
Pass this along to help everyone
realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to
our freedom.
That's my opinion and
I'm sticking to it.
