>> A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. <<
A Republic will continue to exist up until the time that Representatives discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts for the ignorant voting masses from the public treasury to keep themselves in power indefinitely.
There, fixed it for you. :)
You didn’t fix it. You just made it more complicated than it really is. And it isn’t my quote, it is one you have probably read thousands of times, a paraphrase of something written by Alexander Fraser, the Scottish historian who wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic. :)