[I’ve heard of this before. In this post, some more detail is given. It is an interesting thought. I am told that the ancient Greeks thought that democracy was the worst form of Government. I stand to be corrected, but I think only soldiers could “vote” in ancient Greece. I’m a bit rusty… so I could be wrong. The universal franchise, one man one vote – or rather to quote some people on AfricanCrisis: “One Idiot, One Vote” has never existed before. I truly have my doubts. On AfricanCrisis we’ve discussed Meritocracy versus Democracy – rather base political power on a person’s achievements in life. i.e. Exclude idiots and losers from having political say. Jan]

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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 ye ars. 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 Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul,
Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000
Presidential election:

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

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

States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29

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 count ry. 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
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 illegals and they vote, then goodbye to the USA in fewer
than five years.

Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom in our nation and in our churches.

Source: The Right Perspective
URL: http://groups.google.com/group/AbsolutelyRigh…/p>