Obituary of the US? - THIS IS SAD
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the all 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 2016
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 criminal invaders called illegals - and they vote -
then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
"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 2016
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 criminal invaders called illegals - and they vote -
then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
None of the others had the firepower that the common people of the US still have.
Soon we shall see if there is still a backbone.
Look at the voting turnout, I don't know how much better an illustration of apathy you could find.
Hmm given the way this administration lies and manipulates stats, we might be there now an just not know it yet.
Beyond that, start saving for a move to Atlantis.
Saving is hard, because inflation is part of their plan.
But until that moment, I will use the looters system against them. Make them squirm with the knowledge - I know where they are but they cannot control me.
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Personally I think we've gone too far down to make the necessary changes without some kind of physical conflict. And remember that even some of our own thought we should not fight the English for our freedom.
One other possible scenario I can see that might do it is that we all quit producing, get on the welfare bandwagon, take advantage of all the assistance programs out there. After they are totally broken and there is no money left to support anything we can start over again. There’s nothing more refreshing than after a big rain storm.
I bring these points up because I intend to redistribute (I know, I hate using that word) the above text because it is very well written and quite tragically historically accurate but I fear that it is far too easily argued that if the ascription is false or incorrect then so is the message in general.
I will copy the above text but will omit any names when sharing this information until, or if ever I should say, I can find out who truly authored these brilliant yet unfortunate words. Any input is appreciated.
After all I guess I'd consider Atlas Shrugged and most of the other Ayn Rand books to be fictional, but I read them as if they were my bible. It's the ideas, the concepts, that I agree with, not necessarily the authors. Did anyone see Richard Dreyfuss debate Dinesh D'Souza on Huckabee last night? Where did Dreyfuss get his credentials from? I thought it was embarrassing and could not understand why they even aired it, perhaps to show the Hollywood side?.
With 47% of the Country on food stamps, we're well past apathy (not that anyone cares) and well into dependence.
The one hopeful sign is 300 million firearms in private hands. Given the choice, how many would vote for anarchy over bondage?