Hi:

Re: Democracy in America

Here is a post of an emali forwarded to me by  good friend Ed, have a read....


Undebateable – some might think this is good, some might not.

I know what I think...

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     Interesting  observation.
  
 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.
Professor  Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law  in
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.

Apathy is the greatest  danger to our freedom..