Posted on 08/20/2018 10:03:06 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
We must be very careful and only trust the trustworthy - we must trust the Constitution, the rule of law, and duly elected President Trump who stands for both
Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813), a Scottish jurist and historian, provides an explanation for why great societies do not survive for more than 200 years:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship (bondage).
THIS IS WHY DEMOCRATS PREFER ILLEGALS TO LEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
This is why we started as a republic
Goudsmit’s essay is not trustworthy because “There is no reliable record of Alexander Tytler’s having written any part of the text. In fact, it actually comprises two parts which didn’t begin to appear together until the 1970s.”
That prose was obviously written in the simplistic, low-education style of the late 20th century or early 21st century. It is most certainly not in the style of an erudite 18th century advocate, judge, writer and historian who served as Professor of Universal History, and Greek and Roman Antiquities at the University of Edinburgh.
Anybody who takes internet quotations at face value is a fool, no matter how good they sound.
Nope. Being a republic is a subset of democracy, not a sui generis. And the rule still applies. When you discover you can vote money out of the next guys pocket, the downfall clock starts. It’s human nature.
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