Are we complacent in the U.S.?

Oldie but goodie:
About the time our original 13 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 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 due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.

During those 200 years, these 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 Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Population of counties won by:

Gore: 127 million;. . . .Bush: 143 million;
Gore: 580,000;. . . . . .Bush: 2,427 ,000

States won by:

Gore: 19; . . . . . . . . . . . Bush: 29

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties

won by: Gore: 13.2;....Bush: 2.1

Professor 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 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 40 percent of the nation's population

already having reached the "governmental

dependency" phase.

Apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

PS. . . If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship

to 20 million criminal invaders called illegals

and they vote, then goodbye USA .

This was largely debunked in 2001

Submitted by Basmati on Tue, 11/21/2006 - 12:49pm.

This steaming pile of Republican manure was largely debunked in 2001.

Snopes.com on "Complacency"

Interesting bit of trivia: Snopes used some research from the late Citizen columnist Dave Hamrick!

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