RE: [RT] Historical Trends and Political fodder....

["Duke Jones, CMT" <Duke.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This has been circulating around the
internet and it may be a total BS but the dates and data are close enough to
suggest there might be some food for thought.

 

<font size=3 color=black
face="Comic Sans MS">At about the time our original 13 states adopted
their new constitution, in the year 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.<font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS">

<span
>"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:

<span
>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;