Gene's Footnotes

I have never been impressed by the messenger and always inspect the message, which I now understand is not the norm. People prefer to filter out discordant information. As such, I am frequently confronted with, "Where did you hear that...." Well, here you go. If you want an email version, send me an email.

November 21, 2013

Defend the Republic



A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence:  
From bondage to spiritual faith;
faith to great courage; from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to Complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependency;
from dependency back again to bondage.

-Alexander Tyler



In a true republic, the simple majority does not overwhelm law and minorities. Only under the mob rule of democracy does the majority destroy its competitors. (Federalist Papers No 10)

This is why the Senate was not formed from a popular vote. This is why there was a severe structure to preserve individual civil rights and due process.  There was a defined flow of business in Congress. 

All this is gone.  

Next, the subversives will take out the electoral college. 

If nothing improves, we disappear from history.

It does appear that the Obamacare tornado has awakend the average person from apathy.

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