The fall of the USA – Obituary

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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 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 illegal’s – 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.

Washington: Did he pray the USA would not fall?

Washington: Did he pray the USA would not fall?

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  • prbrown60

    The death of America has come and gone, and we have only ourselves to blame. And it is done not by what we do but what we do not do. As Edmund Burke once said: “In order for evil to triumph, good men must do nothing.” And nothing is exactly what we have done. Complaining and yet doing nothing about it, is what has brought this once great country to its knees. America the Great is Dead! America the Beautiful is Dead! America the Proud is Dead. As the song goes, “I’m Proud to be an American, as least I know I’m free.” Not anymore. We are the largest producer of porn. Murder more unborn children in the name of Freedom, except maybe China. WE are no longer a Christian nation. God out of schools, out of government, and out of the marketplace. Homosexual unions are now legal. A government who picks and chooses which laws it will abide by and enforce, and persecute and ruin anyone who disagrees with it. We reap what we sow, and we have sown the whirlwind. Today’s natural disasters, extreme weather, and school shootings are just a few of the punishments that God has heaped on this once great nation for its iniquities against Him. And it is only going to get worse. Greece was once great. Immorality destroyed it. Rome was once great. Immorality destroyed it. Great Britian was once great. It is now gone. And America has followed it these footsteps. America was once referred to as the Modern Day Romans. And they are gone, And we are next.

  • richinnameonly

    Snopes takes issue with some of the details of this, but overall I believe the premise to be true. The left establishes and increases their hold on an ever growing under class using the “Curley Effect” model. It’s an illusion of help but is actually a creation of dependence. The founding fathers wrote our original documents in a way to warn us against a too large and too powerful government, but this administration is not interested in that warning.
    I’m not sure where we are in the timeline of the article, as I see abundance, complacency, apathy and dependence in the U.S. today. The under class is already in a type of bondage, and everyone else could follow as the government grows more powerful.
    Good article.

  • Goten Son

    Liberty is not a good thing remember liberty and freedom are two different things. Liberty refers to a slave who has been given permission to go into town for a short time and then must promptly return when the time is up. But freedom refers to someone being free to chose their own destiny without someone constantly looking over their shoulder.

  • JimF

    This quotation is mis-attributed:

    http://www.lorencollins.net/tytler.html

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