Around the time our original 13 states adopted our constitution in 1878, Lord Woodhouselee Alexander Fraser Tyler, A Scotish historian/Professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say:
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:
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 complacancy
6. From complacancy to apathy
7. From apathy to dependence
8. From dependence back into bondage
Where do you believe the United States is now?
Many people believe somewhere between the complacancy and the apathy stage of professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with a significant percentage of the nation's population already having reached the dependency phase.
Apathy and dependency is the greatest danger to our freedom
This is from a previous posting on my facebook page
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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