Apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom

[LovelyLadyLux]

Got this as a forward in email. Don't know how accurate the facts are - but IF:





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 2016
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.

[Horus]

Makes a lot of sense and a great deal of that also applies to the UK including the disproportianate votes cast for political parties.

[LovelyLadyLux]

They actually do have studies here looking at WHO voted for Obama WHO happen to give out mega cell phones, for example, just prior to his election. He was circuitously buying votes IMO and while I don't deny anybody having a cell phone to just GIVE gifts like this means the $$ is coming from somewhere (meaning MY taxes). AND money to throw like that just isn't there right now.

I think we are in the latter stages of this mans analysis and we're going down the proverbial slippery slope.