titleist1 wrote:
John Adams once said, “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
This is one of my favorites (regardless of the controversy about who actually said it):
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed 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 Selfishness
From Selfishness to Complacency
From Complacency to Apathy
From Apathy to Dependency
From Dependency back into Bondage
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--- most commonly attributed to
"The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic"
by Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Woodhouselee (1748-1813)
(Scottish judge and historian at Edinburgh University)
Then take another bite of their income for useless environmental bullshit, that costs everyone money & makes America weak, all to appease some leftover Woodstock attendees that never came down from that BROWN ACID --- DIDN'T THAT NICE MAN TELL YOU THE BROWN ACID WAS BAD???????????????????? Peace & love is a nice fantasy when your 18 & blasted out of your gourd, but then someday, you have to face REALITY. 
The sad part is, that brown acid spread like herpes & turned America into WEEEE THE SHEEEEPLE!
You would be surprised how many people here in the Commonwealth are