Why Pure Democracies Always Fail.

In America In Decline I discuss the realities of a pure democracy and why they inevitably fail. My good friend Jim Gribbens recently send me an article in which this subject was discussed in length by Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh in the year 1887. It shows, once again, that there is nothing new under the sun! Worse yet, it proves, without a shadow of the doubt, that mankind seems incapable of learning from the mistakes of the past. This is what professor Tyler said 127 years ago when discussing the fall of Athenian Republic some 2000 years before. "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 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 these 200 years, these nations always progress 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 dependency back to bondage." Our obituary has already been written in stone: America, Born 1776-Died 2012. For those of you who believe that the report of America's demise is premature consider these facts. 1) Our nation no longer has borders. 2) Our nation's mean IQ has been falling an average of 1.4 points per generation for the past 150 years and now, with the unrestrained invasion of low IQ illegal immigrants from South America, is in free-fall. 3) Over that past 60 years we have gone from the world's only super power to a nation with no power. In this respect, do you believe for a nanosecond that world leaders give a damn how many red-lines our fearless leader Barack Hussein Obama draws in the sand? Of course not! 4) With an overall illegitimacy rate of 40.7%; an abortion rate of over 50 percent in the black community; and with 33% of all black males being either in prison or on parole, we have gone from a country of morality to a nation of immorality in the short period of about 60 years. 5) Finally, with a national debt exceeding $17.5 trillion we are now bankrupt! In fact, we have been insolvent for several decades but just didn't know it. In this respect, not even Albert Einstein could comprehend the magnitude of a $17.5 trillion dollar debt and there certainly is no possibility that we could ever pay it off, none what so ever! Yes, as professor Tyler predicted 127 years ago America is finished as a great nation. The fact that our Republic would morph into a pure democracy and fail in the process was predictable from day one!