ARE WE DOOMED?

Our nation has been launched on a perilous course and if that course does not get righted this election I fear near future generations will have no hope of ever experiencing the American dreams of our Founding Fathers. 

Here is a quote, a variation of which often is attributed to Thomas Jefferson.  While its source remains in dispute among scholars the words remain profound:

"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 world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."

 -- Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor 1787
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