The End Times

About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution 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 prior:

"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 they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes 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 worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed 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 into bondage.

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

Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements living off government welfare..." Unfortunately, President Bush appears to have betrayed his conservative fiscal and social base and joined with Congress in mindlessly expanding socialism and abandoning any pretense of national sovereignty.

Alexander Tyler warned us of the predictable cycle of never-ending greed and re-election self-interests of individual U.S. Congressmen. Today we watch in prophetic amazement as Congress votes to enshrine themselves, loot the U.S. Treasury in self-interest spending, and defraud fellow Americans of their earnings. Arguably, there is no spending by Congress – none - that is not now motivated by self-interest instead of national interest.

Professor Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency & apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase – no doubt a conservative estimate.

Some have argued that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom. In a contrary viewpoint, have we not passed the point of apathy? Freedoms are becoming, if not scarce, at least less abundant. Our primary concern should be one of liberty.

Today’s governmental dependence is more likely a reliable indicator of the beginning of this nation’s “end times.”

Red State Patriot

Posted July 9, 2006 07:44 AM
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