I am not the author of this post below. However, there is a
discussion concerning factions, our constitutional republic, and democracy in
any of its forms. I post this here so I can link to it in Twitter. You may find
this interesting, as it was written or at least attributed to Professor Tyler
in 1787.
HOW LONG DO WE 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 have always heard
about this democracy countdown. It is interesting to see it in print. God help
us, not that we deserve it.
How Long Do We Have?
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 vote 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 2020
Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans:
2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the
territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of
this great country. Democrat 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 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.
If you are in favor of this, then you’ll probably not like
any of my posts. 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.
It’s this apathy which Haversack History, my speaking venue
found here, addresses and is why I encourage all Americans to get to the polls.
It is the only way the silent majority will be heard.
waj
