Democrat vs Republican

HOW LONG DOES THE USA 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’ve always heard about this democracy countdown. It is interesting and concerning to see it in print. God help us, not that we deserve it.

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 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, 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: 19
Bush: 29

Square miles of land won by:
Gore: 580,000
Bush: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by:
Gore: 127 million
Bush: 143 million

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 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 40% of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal 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.

reply to post by theQuest
I personally believe we have evolved into a socialst-capitalist society vs a democracy. When you look at the amount of taxes paid per citizen we should be able to afford alot more social programs, medical, petroleum and others but my fear is the political mistakes and corruption. The central govt. was never meant to exert so much control over the local institutions, and this could be our downfall. I would like to get to the subject refrenced by the title of the thread.

Something rarely discussed in dem vs rep debates is how the parties came to be. Andrew Jackson or "old hickory" and his campaign was the firstto bring enormus differences between american citizens to light, It was dubbed as the "aristocrats vs the Democrats". The dividing issue was the national bank's design. He realized it created what he called the "headless serpent of opression" or Corporations. He shut down the 2nd National Bank declaring it gave the rich members who controled it and the elitists complete control over the American people. The Republican party has always wanted one thing from their campaigns, they want everyone in existance to be in debt to them, or the country. They have systematicly achieved this over the course of a hundred and fifty years.