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Originally posted by ez
banner needs more guns IMO
Careful. Over 1% of Americans have already signed that thing and we all know how effective online petitions can be. Mind your tone, son.
I'm not following this issue as closely as I would like. At the same time, I'm kinda glad. From what I hear, there's enough conservative psychos out there spreading socialist bullshit fearmongering, which is clouding the issue. Even so, given the recent cash for clunkers program, it's unlikely that there is jack shit anyone with half a brain in this country will be able to do to prevent the gravy train rolling right on through with those spinning, biscuit wheels.
America is not a true democracy, we are a representative republic which is a form of democracy but there is a difference.
About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution in 1787, 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 earlier:
"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 they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
See:
Wall Street bailout
GM/Chrysler bailout
Mortgage bailout
Cash for Clunkers
(pending) Centralized Healthcare
"From that moment on, the majority always vote 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."
Very likely a charismatic, religious nutjob who can rally the far right (which is consistently armed, fuck all), will materialize from somewhere in the "Bible Belt," and rise to power under the guise of "cleaning up our communities."
Initially, the prospect will be an appealing vision of the way things used to be, but while the characteristically uninformed and irresponsible American public at large envisions white picket fences and pastoral scenes from back when cars only cost a nickel, history will be taking a much larger step back... say, 300 years back.
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years"
"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. from dependence back into bondage"
Of course, none of this will ever happen. It's such a far out, crazy idea, right? Before anything even remotely like this would happen, somebody would do something.
Yeah. Somebody.
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