Interesting theory...Discuss

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

It is sad that we can see this coming…

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?

This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. The sad thing

about it, you can see it coming.

I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It is interesting to see

it in print. God help us, even though we deserve it.

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

2,000 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 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 complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage'

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul ,

Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000

Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29

Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143

million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2

Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican

won

was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country.

Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in

government-owned 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.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal

invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA

in fewer than five years.

If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you

are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at

stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

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[wu36ca 10+ year member]

Interesting, but the obvious undertones make me question its validity.

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

Interesting, but the obvious undertones make me question its validity.

What are the "obvious" undertones?

 

[canyouhearmatt 10+ year member]

What are the "obvious" undertones?

IDK..like this was on a myspace message board.

 

[Tehgregzor 10+ year member]

Meh, Change can be a good thing.

 

[canyouhearmatt 10+ year member]

Meh, Change can be a good thing.

A dictatorship is a good thing?

I guess it did bring the Nazi's out of their depression...

 

[SethPhillips 5,000+ posts]

wat?

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

This is a fine discussion that your post has inspired Bones.

lawl.

 

[Lugnutzk 10+ year member]

This is a fine discussion that your post has inspired Bones.
lawl.

Its even got SethPhillips stumped.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

A dictatorship is a good thing?I guess it did bring the Nazi's out of their depression...

You mean the German's. The Nazi party came in to power with promisied to get them out of the depression. And it was far worse than ours...gold was useless. It went to barter. I wonder how many people surviving on govt assistance would know how to barter. Well, they could trade *** and drugs....always good markets for those.

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

This is a fine discussion that your post has inspired Bones.
lawl.

i'm here to stimulate minds

 

[RE_XXX]

Interesting. I hate people who live off the government, lazy and incompetent!

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

i'm here to stimulate minds

I don't doubt that -- it's just that the minds are not here to be stimulated.

 

[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

I find the murder rate quite amusing. At least by using my knowledge on the ethnicity of the majority of democrats in my state.

 

[perfecxionX 10+ year member]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/tyler.asp

i would say the general rule of thumb is : ALL chain emails are bullshit, and deserve only to be deleted immediately