Obituary - The Rise and Fall of Our Democracy

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FOLLOW-UP:

Verification: Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University denied writing the article below.  It was a recycle from the 2000 presidential election between Bush and Gore with names changed to Obama and McCain.  However, the definition of what is Democracy is so persuasive and believable to me because they were my thoughts exactly.  Whoever wrote it should be appreciated.


http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/athenaian.asp


Ate Lib

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How interesting!  This was written by law Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota.  The 2008 presidential election between Obama and McCain is seen in a different view and angle by him.  It's worth noting and yes, everyone should be concerned.  My wish for every voter is to be well informed and not be swayed by hypes and rhetorics.  I kept thinking why Obama was elected?  Right, things happen for a reason.  I realized now why -- to prove to Obama, cold (not cool) and arrogant, that words (of "change" and "hope") alone are not enough to promote a sustainable economy and democracy in action.  How can a man with very little experience and a business acumen that's totally nil be the chief executive officer of the United States of A.? Yes, we're not better of now because of Obama and the Democrats.  We are worse, worser, worst!

I hope, my own mantra of "WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE" will become a reality in the 2012 presidential election.

Thanks for sharing, LTumang.

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From: ltumang
Subject: FW: Obituary - The Rise and Fall of Our Democracy
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:29:19 -0500

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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 2008

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     -     McCain: 29

Square miles of land won by:     Obama: 580,000   -   McCain: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by:     Obama: 127 million    -   McCain: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:  Obama: 13.2  -  McCain: 2.1  

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain 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 illegal's - and when 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.

This is truly scary! Of course we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic. Someone should point this out to Obama.  Of course we know he and too many others pay little attention to the Constitution. There couldn't be more at stake than on Nov 2012.

If you are concerned as I am, please pass this along.

                                                                ~~~O~~~

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