America Will Self-Destruct
as a Democracy

Thursday, 09 August 2007

By Gordon Bishop

The question is: HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?

About the time America's 13 colonies became the USA's first 13 States, adopting their new Constitutional Republic 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 discovery they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.

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.

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 progress 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 to bondage.

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by:
Gore: 19
Bush: 29

Square miles of land won by:
Gore: 580,000
Bush: 2 million, 4 hundred& 27 thousand

Population of counties won by:
Gore: 127 million
Bush: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by
Gore: 13.2
Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate the map of territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpayer citizens of this great county.

Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare.

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already haveingreached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If the United States Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to 20 million criminal invaders called "illegals" - and they vote. Then we can say good-bye to the USA in fewer than five years.

Almost seven years ago, I wrote in my weekly syndicated column: America Is A Republic - Not a ‘Democracy'

Here's what I said:

There is absolutely no basis for the Democrats calling America a "democracy," except for the association between the words Democrat and democracy.

Historically, democracy leads to anarchy, which is "Mob Rule," according to the great Greek philosopher Plato (read Plato's "The Republic").

America was not founded as a democracy. It was created as a Constitutional Republic.

The word "democracy" was never used by the founders in writing the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, or the Bill of Rights.

The Constitution is even more emphatic about the kind of government the United States of America must be to remain free and independent.

Here it is: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a Republican Form of Government." - Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution.

When we salute our American flag, we do not say "democracy;" We say, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, individual, under God, with liberty and justice for all."

An officially-established Republic gives the Republican Constitution credibility!

Democrats, aided and abetted by a liberal media, prefer Democrat and "democracy" propaganda over historical fact.

The Democrats propaganda machine, like Hitler's propaganda machine, recognizes that the bigger the lie, the louder the lie and the longer the lie is told, people will generally believe it.

That's why today we have a Far Left Democrat Party (not "democratic" party - another verbal ‘trick') controlling our educational and political system. Ninety-nine percent of America's colleges and universities are liberal and the vast majority of students graduate with a Degree in Liberal Arts (myself included - Rutgers University in New Jersey).

That's why today America is no longer the world's "Super Power!" We have been surpassed by the Communist Peoples Republic of China. Our "democracy" has taken us down the path of socialism and self-destruction.

(Gordon Bishop is a “Who’s Who in America” nationally syndicated columnist, author, historian and New Jersey’s first “Journalist-of-the-Year” – 1986/New Jersey Press Association.)

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