In 1887, 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 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 to bondage.”

“Professor Olson of Hamline University School of Law in Minnesota believes the United States is  now somewhere between the ‘complacency and apathy’  phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy with some 40 percent of the nation’s population already having reached the ‘governmental dependency’  phase.  And the following is the BIGGEST factor – if Congress grants amnesty and citizenship, AGAIN,  to 20 million, repeat, 20 million, invaders called illegals – and they vote – then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.” 

As I have mentioned before, apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.  How can we break this cycle?  The only way I can see is – to set up a system in which only “TAXPAYERS” can vote – since they are footing the bill.  Why should we allow people to vote who have no skin in the game?

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