I got this email:
Hi All.......The colleague that sent this to me remembers me
referring to the famous historian Toynbee (deceased)...He said
civilizations are three hundred years up and three hundred years
down....I often think about this....For me, this piece is extremely
interesting! I am pretty sure all of you will appreciate
it.....Prayers, best wishes, cris
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 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 over 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 Obituary follows:
Born 1776, Died 2012
It doesn't hurt to read this several times.
Professor
Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul,
Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last
Presidential election:
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 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 we can say
goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.
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..
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