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THE CONSEQUENCE OF FAILURE TO CONVINCE A MAJORITY OF THE HOUSE AND TWO-THIRDS OF THE SENATE OF THE TRUE MEANING OF THE WORD
UNIFORM WILL BE THE PROBABLE FAILURE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE YEAR 2084.
Lord Woodhouselee circa 1778 wrote: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 treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred 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, and from dependency back to bondage.
The American democractic republic cannot continue to exist as a permanent form of government, if the lower income American voter majority continue to vote for representatives that transfer the money--put in the public treasure by the higher income American voter minority--to lower income American voters. Lower income American voters have been encouraged to do just that since that 1913 adoption by their Congress of a progressive tax. Congress chose to tax the dollars of income of the more wealthy at a higher rate than they tax the dollars of income of the less wealthy. From that 1913 moment on, the majority has, with too few exceptions, voted for candidates promising them the most money from the public treasury, with the result that our democratic republic began its collapse over loose fiscal policy leading inexorably to a future dictatorship.
The history of the world's previous republics shows they rarely existed for more than two hundred years. These republics progressed through bondage to spiritual faith, to great courage, to liberty, to abundance, to selfishness, to complacency, to apathy, to dependency, and from dependency back to bondage.
Do Americans have to also replicate that cycle? Are we condemned to decide there is nothing we can do to avoid duplicating the results of that cycle? Are we therefore really going to decide there is nothing we will do about it.
I say that even if we now perceive the probability infinitesimal that we can succeed avoiding that cycle, we would be idiots not to make the effort anyhow, and take the chance of learning that probability is not infinitesimal, if we dedicate ourselves to avoiding that cycle.
The lives of our progeny are depending on us.
But he is entitled, as we are equally entitled to enjoy the Republican convention if it is more to our liking. And, the Republicans will certainly comment on the content of the Democratic Convention as will the Dems comment on the Republican convention.