hog88
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Don’t know where to put this, but this seems like as good of a place as any.
Paging @zeppelin128 to the thread. Zeppelin to the thread, stat.
Alexander Fraser TytlerA democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this 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 apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.
I've been rewatching South Park from the beginning over the past couple of months. It is humorous that we recycle the same political debates every few years, just with a different cast of pols.
"All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again." -#6 from BSG