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[Geee]

Real Clear Policy

 

In 1887, Alexander Fraser, a Scottish professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about 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. Democracy will continue to exist 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 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, nations have always regressed to the following sequence:

• From bondage to spiritual faith
• From spiritual faith to great courage
• From great courage to liberty
• From liberty to abundance
• From abundance to selfishness
• From selfishness to complacency
• From complacency to apathy
• From apathy to dependence
• From dependence back to bondage

While history seems to be clearly repeating itself, New World technology gives us the ability to bring sunlight to how our tax dollars are being spent. Doing so will prolong the life of our great nation.

[Valin]

13 minutes ago, Geee said:

Real Clear Policy

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, nations have always regressed to the following sequence:

3. points

1. We are NOT a Democracy. We are a Federal Republic.

2. The Roman Republic last 500 years. They must have been doing Something Right. May I recommend * Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy  Niccolò Machiavelli.

3. When the Founders/Framers looked for a model they did Not look to Athens . They Looked to Sparta. With their Divided government (whatever else they got wrong, they got That Right)

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