OBITUARY
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning last November's Presidential election:
(Won by:)
Obama
McCain
Number of States
Square miles of land
Population of counties
Murder rate per 100,000 county residents19
580,000
127 Million
13.229
2,427,000
143 million
2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
According to Snopes, http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/athenian.asp , the facts in this presentation are only partially true. However, America is still in deep trouble. Are you willing to realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
Professor Tyler's definition of democracy is as follows:
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.If you read the book of Judges in the Bible, you will see that Israel went through this cycle 7 times. When you review the recent history of America, there is a good chance that we are indeed in the "abundance to complacency" phase as presented by Professor Olson (or maybe even the "apathy to dependence" phase as suggested by Henning Webb Prentis, Jr. (in the link below).
For a more extensive discussion of the "Definition of Democracy" (otherwise known as the "Fatal Sequence") see a very interesting article at: http://www.lorencollins.net/tytler.html .