Not sure how to take this

Both exist — and have existed since the forming of the country — within the U.S.

Rofl_Mao wrote: The average life-span of a democracy is 200 years... how much longer can we really last?

Uh?

Rofl_Mao wrote: The average life-span of a democracy is 200 years... how much longer can we really last?

At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history
professor at The University of Edinborough) 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 due to loose fiscal policy,(which is) always
followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the worlds 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."

http://www.wrisley.com/cycle.htm


It might just be a quote but its kind of true.


Edited by Rofl_Mao - 04 December 2009 at 10:12pm