guys@consolidated.net wrote in message ...
>
>Years ago, I worked in the local political game. We had
>a rotten city government that ran for the few.
>
>A rich retired man took on the local politicians.
>
>He was elected but found out he could do
>little.
>
>In the next election the clique come up with many candidates to
dilute
>the election. So they diluted the vote and with their clique vote
>they reclaimed the offices.
>
>High school voting learning is so idealistic and simplistic.
>
>Democracy requires a core of very ethical people with
>an interested in their homeland.
>
>So much of the US lacks this property.
>
>When I was young, I thought education was the answer
>
>So far that thought has proven wrong. It just
>gives the bums more power to do their thing.
>
>This is ON Topic because it is a point on medical costs.
Somebody sent me this today. They should have sent it to you Guy. :-)
Cheri
"About the time our original thirteen 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 earlier:"
"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 vote 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, those 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"
The reality of democracy 
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