by American Reform Party posted on Friday, November 27, 2009

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (15 October 1747 - 5 January 1813) a Scottish-born British lawyer, writer and history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had the following 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 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 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 list beginning "From bondage to spiritual faith" is commonly known as the "Tytler Cycle" or the "Fatal Sequence". Its first known appearance is in a 1943 speech "Industrial Management in a Republic" by H. W. Prentis, president of the Armstrong Cork Company and former president of the National Association of Manufacturers.

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota points out some interesting facts and correlations between the above passage and the 2008 Presidential election of Barack Obama:

 

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 somewhere between the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tylter'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 immigrants and they are granted the right to vote, then we can say goodbye to our country and freedoms in fewer than ten years.

Apathy is the greatest danger and threat to our freedom. Time has come for us to reverse this trend before the Progressive Politician's in Washington become the very dictators we fought against in 1776. It is time to Take Back the control of our government and restore common sense application of our constitution as originally intended by our Founders.

 

WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE

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