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, not that 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:Gore: 19Bush: 29Square miles of land won by:Gore: 580,000Bush: 2,427,000Population of counties won by:Gore: 127 millionBush: 143 millionMurder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:Gore: 13.2Bush: 2.1Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won
was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great
country. Gore's 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 illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the
USA in fewer than five years.If you are in favor of this then 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. Thanks for reading
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