If you have not previously sighted this, it makes for a very interesting if not prophetic read..................as I read the Obituary, I thought how much it also applied to present day Australia and South Africa!
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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 into
bondage."
The Obituary follows:
"United States of
America", Born 1776, Died
2016
It
doesn't hurt to read this several times.
Professor Joseph Olson of
Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some
interesting facts concerning the last
Presidential election:
Number
of States won by: Obama: 19 Romney:
29
Square
miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 Romney:
2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million Romney: 143
million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Obama: 13.2 Romney: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Romney won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income 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 illegal’s - and they vote - then we can say Goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.