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A warning from Scots Historian Professor Alexander Tyler, circa 1787,
Re: The Fall of the Athenian Republic.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (generous gifts) from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilization has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this 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."
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University of Law, St. Paul, MN passed on that gem & provides the following 2000 election facts for consideration.
Population of counties won by Gore 127 million, won by Bush 143 million
Sq. miles of country won by Gore 580,000, won by Bush 2,427,000
States won by Gore 19, by Bush 29
Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore 13.2 by Bush 2.1 (not a typo)
Professor Olson adds, "And may I add that the map of the territory Bush won was (mostly) the land owned by the people of this great country.
Not the citizens living in cities owned by the government and living
off the government....
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