Cycle of a Democracy

What the fuck?

"Where do you think we are in this cycle, and why?"

Somewhere between dependency and bondage.
Why? Because we have not been vigilant. Freedom is NOT free. Many paid with their lives for our freedom but beyond that, it takes an informed and engaged citizenry to keep what was fought for.
We have been infiltrated, infected and indoctrinated by the ideologies that we proclaimed our independence from.

laughingduck said:

Cycle of Democracy ​

"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. ​

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:​

"From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage."




Where do you think we are in this cycle, and why?
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Apathy for sure, but I have faith in the idea that many Americans are stopping the cycle here and beginning to revert back toward courage.

It's actually called the cycle of civilization. A theory believed to be hypothesized by Alexander Fraser Tytler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler

Here it is for visual learners.