Tytler Cycle? Meet Alexander Tytler. A small bio and few quotes copied from the web pages I am about to link to:
Alexander Tytler was a Scottish historian who lived at the time of the American founding fathers. Tytler stated:
"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 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 world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always 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 complacency;
- From complacency to apathy;
- From apathy to dependence;
- From dependence back into bondage”
This will be a long four-part read starting from a post from 2009 but it is absolutely worth it. We are going through a critical time in our Nation's history and we need people with the vision to get it back on the right track.
