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    Default The Democracy Movement Is Feasting On COVID-19

    I have railed against the Democracy Movement in a thousand messages. Make no mistake about the Democracy Movement —— it is the most insidious conspiracy ever devised to destroy this country’s individual liberties. Throughout history democracy has been the parasite’s preferred form of government. If that is not enough to tell you about the kind of people behind the Democracy Movement this should scare you stiff: Democracy is always going towards something worse; never towards liberty.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...92#post3227492

    Every coronavirus tax dollar handed to medical industry parasites buys more democracy (i.e. TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT) regardless of which president signs the legislation:
    Credit FIVE TRILLION coronavirus tax dollars that Democrats and Republicans already paid out to “Make The World Safe For Democracy” —— as well as tighten the Parasite Class’ stranglehold on the U.S. Constitution.


    A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.

    From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

    Alexander Tytler

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...68#post2905868

    America’s brilliant Founders had no use for democracy, while Alexander Tytler’s spot-on analysis said it best when you detail how much more damage the Parasite Class can do to this country with untold TRILLIONS of COVID-19 tax dollars in the pipeline.


    Sir Alexander Tytler was a Scottish advocate, judge, writer, and historian. Lord Tytler lived from 1747 until 1813; about the time of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson in America. Tytler was a professor at the University of Edinburgh. One of Tytler's most influential and proverbial historical writings was about the lifespan of countries operating under democratic republican governance. Tytler believed the life expectancy of a self-ruled nation was about 200 years.

    Tytler was very dismissive about who holds the real power in a democratic republic or even a pure democracy. He felt these types of government do not last, cannot sustain themselves, and eventually crumble because of human nature. History repeats itself because human nature does not change. Tytler's most famous historical and yet futuristic prediction was the "Eight Stages of a Democracy." After studying human nature as well as past history, Tytler predicted the "Eight Stages of a Democracy." A brief reading sure makes one nervous about America's future.

    "Eight Stages of a Democracy."

    1) Bondage to Spiritual Faith
    Read More

    2) Spiritual Faith to Great Courage

    3) Great Courage to Liberty

    4) Liberty to Abundance

    5) Abundance to Selfishness

    6) Selfishness to Apathy

    7) Apathy to Dependence

    8) Dependence back to Bondage

    The study of Tytler's analysis can be sobering. A great many Americans, including 80 million Trump voters, are inclined to feel we're at stage #7 and closing in on #8 fast. Surely you would think that even the Americans who have placed their guy in the White House must see some of the danger signs. The Biden/Harris administration has declared war on religion. The Biden/Harris regime is criminalizing political dissent. There are way too many Americans who live only on government assistance and handouts. Our borders are being overrun by illegal immigrants for whom there are no jobs. And when there is work for illegals, it certainly pushes down the wages of the poor working-class Americans already legally here. Our nation's capital has been barricaded, bordered up, and beefed up with soldiers who are there to shoot fellow Americans. Lincoln did not even order this during the Civil War. And half of America does not believe the recent election results. We now in some ways resemble Germany of the early 1930s.

    Progressives might call this the "new normal." Patriots would call it bondage. The new McCarthyism from the Left has made some patriots prisoners in their own land. Increasingly, patriots are being cancelled out of their own society. Books are burned, authors are silenced, and careers are destroyed. Churches are shuttered in this new normal. This new Supreme Court has no credibility with half of America, which now believes the Supreme Court is comprised of either cowards, the compromised, or crooks. The late Milton Friedman famously said that America can either have a society with a welfare safety net for the less fortunate, or a borderless country without laws restricting immigration, but not both. That is exactly what the Biden/Harris administration is trying to do right now. It is almost as if they are trying to bring us to financial ruin and economic collapse on purpose. One must wonder if those in power are taking direct instructions from China. The French student of democracy Alexis de Tocqueville once said long ago of America that "America is a great country because America is good." But once they cease to be good, they will no longer be great. This is an ominous warning, even from the French. When we have to take moral guidance lessons from the French, we’re in trouble.

    Lord Tytler continued to say that neither democratic republics nor pure democracies last for more than 200 years for one simple reason. Tytler explained that, "It only exists until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury." Once the voters realize this, they only vote into office those politicians who give them free stuff without the need to work for it. This causes economic and eventual national collapse, and a dictatorial totalitarian government replaces the democratic republic.

    Tytler's words of wisdom are good for a Chamber of Commerce, an AP History class, and a Sunday School class to hear and ponder. Congress in particular should study Tytler's eight stages. November 4th, 2020 was a disastrous day in American history. And the days that followed January 6th, 2021, might even prove to be far worse and longer lasting. America is now in her 245th year of existence. One must wonder, unless we can change things around dramatically, rapidly, and extensively (and God heals our land); if we are living on borrowed time. Sir Alexander Tytler believed that we are.


    March 12, 2021
    What if Alexander Tytler was Right?
    By Andrew W. Coy

    https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...was_right.html
    Last edited by Flanders; 03-12-2021 at 12:25 PM.
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    Hello Flanders,

    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    ... The Biden/Harris administration has declared war on religion.
    I disagree. Please provide evidence to support this radical statement?

    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    The Biden/Harris regime is criminalizing political dissent.
    I disagree. Please provide evidence to support this radical statement?

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    There are way too many Americans who live only on government assistance and handouts.
    Then raise the minimum wage. When people earn more, they no longer qualify for the dole. It is a failure of capitalism that a person can work full time and still live in poverty.

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    Our borders are being overrun by illegal immigrants for whom there are no jobs.
    Not true. Most of them find work. Their work is essential to many of our industries. Without them, produce rots in the fileds.

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    And when there is work for illegals, it certainly pushes down the wages of the poor working-class Americans already legally here.
    Again, if the minimum wage is raised, wages will not fall below that level.
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    [QUOTE=PoliTalker;4297879]Hello Flanders,

    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    The Biden/Harris administration has declared war on religion.
    I disagree. Please provide evidence to support this radical statement?

    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    The Biden/Harris regime is criminalizing political dissent.
    I disagree. Please provide evidence to support this radical statement?

    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    There are way too many Americans who live only on government assistance and handouts.
    Then raise the minimum wage. When people earn more, they no longer qualify for the dole. It is a failure of capitalism that a person can work full time and still live in poverty.

    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Our borders are being overrun by illegal immigrants for whom there are no jobs.
    Not true. Most of them find work. Their work is essential to many of our industries. Without them, produce rots in the fileds.

    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    And when there is work for illegals, it certainly pushes down the wages of the poor working-class Americans already legally here.
    Again, if the minimum wage is raised, wages will not fall below that level.

    To PoliTalker: Contact Andrew W. Coy for answers to your clever little questions.
    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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    Flanders bit has run stale


    You see America was built on Democracy


    Hating democracy more of a Putin gig


    The founders designed a New Fangled type of democracy that the world had not tried yet


    It worked


    Putin hates that it works


    So he defames democracy


    Some uneducated people buy putins defamation attempts


    No one likes those uneducated people

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    Hello Flanders,

    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Contact Andrew W. Coy for answers to your clever little questions.
    I have had my say. If you want to discuss in the thread you created go right ahead.

    No way I am executing your directive. You already posted way too much garbage to read. What a freaking time-eater. All to find some rant from heavily slanted townhall.

    No. That's BS.

    Can you only copy-paste and issue meaningless directives?

    Or are you able to actually discuss politics on a political discussion board...

    What is YOUR view?

    Write something in your own words.

    I came for a discussion.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    I have had my say.
    To Politalker: If you actually have something to say —— say it —— instead of asking questions looking for answers that make your case for you.

    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    are you able to actually discuss politics on a political discussion board...
    To Politalker: I decide what I respond to if at all.

    For your edification. This is a message board. Find a Chat Room if you want discussions.


    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    What is YOUR view?
    To Politalker: Research my messages. My views and opinions are all in the threads you and your kind claim you do not read.

    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Write something in your own words.
    To Politalker: Bold text are my words. Do not open up my threads if my format is too much for you.

    Incidentally, I have been posting on message boards since the year 2,000. You are another liberal in a long line of liberal assholes that played the same game whenever they responded to one of my threads.

    1. Ask clever questions.

    2. Defend every Socialist/Communist position with moral garbage.

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    Happily, every Democrat ends up not replying to my threads. I look forward to seeing the end of you before long.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    I have railed against the Democracy Movement in a thousand messages. Make no mistake about the Democracy Movement —— it is the most insidious conspiracy ever devised to destroy this country’s individual liberties. Throughout history democracy has been the parasite’s preferred form of government. If that is not enough to tell you about the kind of people behind the Democracy Movement this should scare you stiff: Democracy is always going towards something worse; never towards liberty.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...92#post3227492

    Every coronavirus tax dollar handed to medical industry parasites buys more democracy (i.e. TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT) regardless of which president signs the legislation:
    Credit FIVE TRILLION coronavirus tax dollars that Democrats and Republicans already paid out to “Make The World Safe For Democracy” —— as well as tighten the Parasite Class’ stranglehold on the U.S. Constitution.


    A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.

    From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

    Alexander Tytler

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...68#post2905868

    America’s brilliant Founders had no use for democracy, while Alexander Tytler’s spot-on analysis said it best when you detail how much more damage the Parasite Class can do to this country with untold TRILLIONS of COVID-19 tax dollars in the pipeline.


    Sir Alexander Tytler was a Scottish advocate, judge, writer, and historian. Lord Tytler lived from 1747 until 1813; about the time of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson in America. Tytler was a professor at the University of Edinburgh. One of Tytler's most influential and proverbial historical writings was about the lifespan of countries operating under democratic republican governance. Tytler believed the life expectancy of a self-ruled nation was about 200 years.

    Tytler was very dismissive about who holds the real power in a democratic republic or even a pure democracy. He felt these types of government do not last, cannot sustain themselves, and eventually crumble because of human nature. History repeats itself because human nature does not change. Tytler's most famous historical and yet futuristic prediction was the "Eight Stages of a Democracy." After studying human nature as well as past history, Tytler predicted the "Eight Stages of a Democracy." A brief reading sure makes one nervous about America's future.

    "Eight Stages of a Democracy."

    1) Bondage to Spiritual Faith
    Read More

    2) Spiritual Faith to Great Courage

    3) Great Courage to Liberty

    4) Liberty to Abundance

    5) Abundance to Selfishness

    6) Selfishness to Apathy

    7) Apathy to Dependence

    8) Dependence back to Bondage

    The study of Tytler's analysis can be sobering. A great many Americans, including 80 million Trump voters, are inclined to feel we're at stage #7 and closing in on #8 fast. Surely you would think that even the Americans who have placed their guy in the White House must see some of the danger signs. The Biden/Harris administration has declared war on religion. The Biden/Harris regime is criminalizing political dissent. There are way too many Americans who live only on government assistance and handouts. Our borders are being overrun by illegal immigrants for whom there are no jobs. And when there is work for illegals, it certainly pushes down the wages of the poor working-class Americans already legally here. Our nation's capital has been barricaded, bordered up, and beefed up with soldiers who are there to shoot fellow Americans. Lincoln did not even order this during the Civil War. And half of America does not believe the recent election results. We now in some ways resemble Germany of the early 1930s.

    Progressives might call this the "new normal." Patriots would call it bondage. The new McCarthyism from the Left has made some patriots prisoners in their own land. Increasingly, patriots are being cancelled out of their own society. Books are burned, authors are silenced, and careers are destroyed. Churches are shuttered in this new normal. This new Supreme Court has no credibility with half of America, which now believes the Supreme Court is comprised of either cowards, the compromised, or crooks. The late Milton Friedman famously said that America can either have a society with a welfare safety net for the less fortunate, or a borderless country without laws restricting immigration, but not both. That is exactly what the Biden/Harris administration is trying to do right now. It is almost as if they are trying to bring us to financial ruin and economic collapse on purpose. One must wonder if those in power are taking direct instructions from China. The French student of democracy Alexis de Tocqueville once said long ago of America that "America is a great country because America is good." But once they cease to be good, they will no longer be great. This is an ominous warning, even from the French. When we have to take moral guidance lessons from the French, we’re in trouble.

    Lord Tytler continued to say that neither democratic republics nor pure democracies last for more than 200 years for one simple reason. Tytler explained that, "It only exists until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury." Once the voters realize this, they only vote into office those politicians who give them free stuff without the need to work for it. This causes economic and eventual national collapse, and a dictatorial totalitarian government replaces the democratic republic.

    Tytler's words of wisdom are good for a Chamber of Commerce, an AP History class, and a Sunday School class to hear and ponder. Congress in particular should study Tytler's eight stages. November 4th, 2020 was a disastrous day in American history. And the days that followed January 6th, 2021, might even prove to be far worse and longer lasting. America is now in her 245th year of existence. One must wonder, unless we can change things around dramatically, rapidly, and extensively (and God heals our land); if we are living on borrowed time. Sir Alexander Tytler believed that we are.


    March 12, 2021
    What if Alexander Tytler was Right?
    By Andrew W. Coy

    https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...was_right.html
    cuckoo. cuckoo. american thinker!!! what a laugh.

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    Well at least the OP admits they are not here to discuss anything, they are just here to post their messages. This is a Political Discussion Board (at times) but somehow the OP believes it is a message board, thinking someone got banned from Twitter and is looking for a new place to post their cut and paste messages, which makes them a troll.

    I do agree with one thing, they are best ignored.

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    Goodbye Flanders,

    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    To Politalker: If you actually have something to say —— say it —— instead of asking questions looking for answers that make your case for you.



    To Politalker: I decide what I respond to if at all.

    For your edification. This is a message board. Find a Chat Room if you want discussions.




    To Politalker: Research my messages. My views and opinions are all in the threads you and your kind claim you do not read.



    To Politalker: Bold text are my words. Do not open up my threads if my format is too much for you.

    Incidentally, I have been posting on message boards since the year 2,000. You are another liberal in a long line of liberal assholes that played the same game whenever they responded to one of my threads.

    1. Ask clever questions.

    2. Defend every Socialist/Communist position with moral garbage.

    3. Attack the messenger when everything fails.

    Happily, every Democrat ends up not replying to my threads. I look forward to seeing the end of you before long.
    I strongly suspect you are a bot. Bots post things they are programmed to post, but are unable to engage in sincere two-way conversation.

    But no matter.

    I have been completely civil to you and attempted to engage in a polite discussion. Your lopsided and inappropriate response is unprovoked and abusive name-calling.

    We ain't gonna do the abuser / enabler thing. Anybody can call me names one time. That's on you. That's my queue to cut it off. If I don't cut it off then it is the same as giving tacit approval, an indication that I accept an uncivil style of conversing. I do not. I come here to talk about politics, not other posters. And I certainly don't want to listen to someone else unload their own frustrations on me in a vain attempt to free themselves of inner torment and hatred of a world that, like it or not, exists regardless.

    Call me a name one time, that's on you. If it happens a second time, that's on me. It's not going to happen a second time because you have been added to my Ignore List. I really don't care if you reply to this or not. Even if you do, it won't matter. I'll never read a word you write, even if quoted by another, nor respond to you, nor participate in your threads. This is my last post in this thread.

    I don't know what your problems are, why you're mean to someone who has been nice to you, and I don't wish to know. Messed up rude people are a dime a dozen. It would be foolish to engage in a conversation where one has been warned, as has just occurred, that the conversation will be loaded with disdain for the other. I have no interest in that. I don't have to. I don't want to. It's just a bad habit. I don't want the negativity. I love my life. I have a fabulous life. I don't want my peace and serenity marred by your disrespect and anti-social garbage.

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    I hope you somehow one day find the peace of mind which obviously escapes you. I wish you well. You are already forgiven for your sad outburst. If you ever find good will and wish to express regret at your transgression, sorry, I will never be available to hear it. So in that case, just be nice and forgiving to some other tormented mind yet to transcend. Share the good will. Have a good life, if possible. (if you are a human)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    I have railed against the Democracy Movement in a thousand messages. Make no mistake about the Democracy Movement —— it is the most insidious conspiracy ever devised to destroy this country’s individual liberties. Throughout history democracy has been the parasite’s preferred form of government. If that is not enough to tell you about the kind of people behind the Democracy Movement this should scare you stiff: Democracy is always going towards something worse; never towards liberty.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...92#post3227492

    Every coronavirus tax dollar handed to medical industry parasites buys more democracy (i.e. TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT) regardless of which president signs the legislation:
    Credit FIVE TRILLION coronavirus tax dollars that Democrats and Republicans already paid out to “Make The World Safe For Democracy” —— as well as tighten the Parasite Class’ stranglehold on the U.S. Constitution.


    A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.

    From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

    Alexander Tytler

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...68#post2905868

    America’s brilliant Founders had no use for democracy, while Alexander Tytler’s spot-on analysis said it best when you detail how much more damage the Parasite Class can do to this country with untold TRILLIONS of COVID-19 tax dollars in the pipeline.


    Sir Alexander Tytler was a Scottish advocate, judge, writer, and historian. Lord Tytler lived from 1747 until 1813; about the time of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson in America. Tytler was a professor at the University of Edinburgh. One of Tytler's most influential and proverbial historical writings was about the lifespan of countries operating under democratic republican governance. Tytler believed the life expectancy of a self-ruled nation was about 200 years.

    Tytler was very dismissive about who holds the real power in a democratic republic or even a pure democracy. He felt these types of government do not last, cannot sustain themselves, and eventually crumble because of human nature. History repeats itself because human nature does not change. Tytler's most famous historical and yet futuristic prediction was the "Eight Stages of a Democracy." After studying human nature as well as past history, Tytler predicted the "Eight Stages of a Democracy." A brief reading sure makes one nervous about America's future.

    "Eight Stages of a Democracy."

    1) Bondage to Spiritual Faith
    Read More

    2) Spiritual Faith to Great Courage

    3) Great Courage to Liberty

    4) Liberty to Abundance

    5) Abundance to Selfishness

    6) Selfishness to Apathy

    7) Apathy to Dependence

    8) Dependence back to Bondage

    The study of Tytler's analysis can be sobering. A great many Americans, including 80 million Trump voters, are inclined to feel we're at stage #7 and closing in on #8 fast. Surely you would think that even the Americans who have placed their guy in the White House must see some of the danger signs. The Biden/Harris administration has declared war on religion. The Biden/Harris regime is criminalizing political dissent. There are way too many Americans who live only on government assistance and handouts. Our borders are being overrun by illegal immigrants for whom there are no jobs. And when there is work for illegals, it certainly pushes down the wages of the poor working-class Americans already legally here. Our nation's capital has been barricaded, bordered up, and beefed up with soldiers who are there to shoot fellow Americans. Lincoln did not even order this during the Civil War. And half of America does not believe the recent election results. We now in some ways resemble Germany of the early 1930s.

    Progressives might call this the "new normal." Patriots would call it bondage. The new McCarthyism from the Left has made some patriots prisoners in their own land. Increasingly, patriots are being cancelled out of their own society. Books are burned, authors are silenced, and careers are destroyed. Churches are shuttered in this new normal. This new Supreme Court has no credibility with half of America, which now believes the Supreme Court is comprised of either cowards, the compromised, or crooks. The late Milton Friedman famously said that America can either have a society with a welfare safety net for the less fortunate, or a borderless country without laws restricting immigration, but not both. That is exactly what the Biden/Harris administration is trying to do right now. It is almost as if they are trying to bring us to financial ruin and economic collapse on purpose. One must wonder if those in power are taking direct instructions from China. The French student of democracy Alexis de Tocqueville once said long ago of America that "America is a great country because America is good." But once they cease to be good, they will no longer be great. This is an ominous warning, even from the French. When we have to take moral guidance lessons from the French, we’re in trouble.

    Lord Tytler continued to say that neither democratic republics nor pure democracies last for more than 200 years for one simple reason. Tytler explained that, "It only exists until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury." Once the voters realize this, they only vote into office those politicians who give them free stuff without the need to work for it. This causes economic and eventual national collapse, and a dictatorial totalitarian government replaces the democratic republic.

    Tytler's words of wisdom are good for a Chamber of Commerce, an AP History class, and a Sunday School class to hear and ponder. Congress in particular should study Tytler's eight stages. November 4th, 2020 was a disastrous day in American history. And the days that followed January 6th, 2021, might even prove to be far worse and longer lasting. America is now in her 245th year of existence. One must wonder, unless we can change things around dramatically, rapidly, and extensively (and God heals our land); if we are living on borrowed time. Sir Alexander Tytler believed that we are.


    March 12, 2021
    What if Alexander Tytler was Right?
    By Andrew W. Coy

    https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...was_right.html
    Good read. True. The DEms will destroy the USA but the worrying part is that no one is stopping them.

    LIFE IS SHORT - SMILE WHILE YOU STILL HAVE TEETH.

    we must all learn to hear what we do not like - the questions is not, "is it pleasant?" but, "is it true?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by cordeela View Post
    Good read. True. The DEms will destroy the USA but the worrying part is that no one is stopping them.
    Its over.
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    Every freedom-loving American pays $13,800 to convince productive Americans that this country is a democracy:


    COVID bills pilfer $17,000 from each individual, give back only $3,200
    By WND Staff
    Published March 13, 2021 at 7:59pm

    https://www.wnd.com/2021/03/covid-bi...ive-back-3200/

    Add another $13,800 to every COVID-19 bill that preceded Biden’s gift:

    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Credit FIVE TRILLION coronavirus tax dollars that Democrats and Republicans already paid out to “Make The World Safe For Democracy” —— as well as tighten the Parasite Class’ stranglehold on the U.S. Constitution.
    the total to date comes to approximately $69,000 per American with no end in sight.

    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Every coronavirus tax dollar handed to medical industry parasites buys more democracy (i.e. TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT) regardless of which president signs the legislation:
    In fact, every coronavirus tax dollar was collected by freaks in government to further enslave Americans in a democracy. Indeed, every tax dollar welfare state program was implemented to turn this country into a democracy.

    Americans were the greatest people the world had ever see because of the freedoms they enjoyed under a limited government. PROOF: Since the XVI Amendment was implemented the Parasite Class took took and never gave back anything —— certainly not $3,200.

    Finally, before Obama anointed himself as the country’s spiritual leader the Clintons played the morality card to justify democracy’s welfare state. Not a one of them ever mentioned the loss of liberty:


    [Bill] Clinton: "I can spend your money better than you can."

    http://www.gargaro.com/clintonquotes.html


    7) "There are rich people everywhere. And yet they do not contribute to the growth of their own countries.....They don't invest in public schools, in public hospitals, in other kinds of development internally." – Hillary Clinton

    8) "No. We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices ... Government has to make those choices for people." – Hillary Clinton

    https://townhall.com/columnists/john...draft-n2012995
    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Democracy is always going towards something worse;

    Note that Canada is a democracy “. . . going towards something worse . . .”


    Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide:

    How It Starts: It’s just a safety valve, a tiny change in medical ethics and the law. Protective guidelines will protect against abuse!

    Where It Is Now: There are too many obstacles to death! We have to make it easier to die!

    Where It’s Going: Death on demand for any reason (already the law in Germany).

    Some jurisdictions are moving along this trajectory quickly and some more slowly. But over time, that is the way the current flows.

    Canada is speed runner in this regard. After its supreme court imposed a positive right to euthanasia in 2015, the country cheered and embraced “medical assistance in dying” (MAID) with an enthusiasm that shocked me to my bone marrow. Parliament passed a law with a weak limitation that death must be “reasonably foreseeable” to qualify for a lethal jab.

    That wasn’t good enough. The death pushers immediately began agitating to expand eligibility, including the filing of lawsuits, one of which was successful in Quebec.

    While there was some resistance, national politicians acquiesced with startling alacrity. A bill just passed the House of Commons that — barring shockingly unforeseen resistance in the Senate, which already voted to loosen the rules — will radically expand eligibility for euthanasia in Canada, including the following provisions:

    ● Reasonably foreseeable death will no longer be required. That opens the door to euthanizing people with disabilities, patients diagnosed with dementia but still competent, as well as the mentally ill.
    ● After a further time for studying the issue of creating protective guidelines (!!), people whose sole medical problem is mental illness will explicitly qualify for euthanasia.
    ● There will be no waiting period required between request for death and termination for people whose deaths are reasonably foreseeable — a very lax term. This means a patient with, say, two years of life expectancy could theoretically be killed immediately upon request.

    The expansion will eventually continue to allowing people diagnosed with dementia to order themselves killed in an advance directive when they become mentally incompetent and to pediatric euthanasia of “mature minors” — both among the subjects likely to be “studied” by a committee of “experts” over the next two years, meaning they are coming next.

    Disability-rights activists fought back furiously and backed a filibuster over the bill that succeeded for a time. But it was eventually broken by the ruling minority Liberals and Bloc Québécois.

    The despair of people with disabilities on Twitter after the vote was visceral, with some noting that Canada does not guarantee life with dignity — with say, independent living services — but will guarantee “death with dignity” when the paucity of services leads to a suicidal desire. They feel, rationally, like targets rather than beneficiaries.

    It is also worth noting that only 15 percent of Canadians have access to quality palliative care. Not to worry, the panel of experts will “study” that too. Good grief.

    Americans should be alarmed by these events. Canada is our closest cultural cousin. If the culture of death can take root so quickly and deeply there, it can here, too.

    Slippery-slope argumentation? No. Facts on the ground. Those with eyes to see, let them see.


    Canada Poised to Legalize Euthanasia for Disabled and Mentally Ill
    By Wesley J. Smith
    March 13, 2021 10:39 AM

    https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...-mentally-ill/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Tytler believed the life expectancy of a self-ruled nation was about 200 years.
    Switzerland comes to mind. The cantons of the Swiss confederation have practiced "direct" democracy for about seven centuries, several times longer than Tytler thought was possible. So far the citizens haven't all helped themselves to each other's money.

    How can this be?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    So far the citizens haven't all helped themselves to each other's money.

    How can this be?
    To Tranquillus in Exile: Because Switzerland is a federal republic.
    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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