Portrait_of_The_Hon._Alexander_Fraser_Tytler,_Lord_Woodhouselee

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 onward, 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." "Since the Beginning of History, the average age of the world's greatest civilizations 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." It doesn't hurt to read this several times. Recently, (10 years ago, 2012): Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerningthe last Presidential election (2012): 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 ofdemocracy, 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 illegal immigrants - and they vote with those who favor government handouts - it may very well tip the scales and we can say goodbye to the USA as we know it. Please pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our Freedom.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler,_Lord_Woodhouselee