From Bondage to Liberty to Bondage

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In 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh noticed a continuing pattern in the advance and decline of the worlds democracies.

He stated that a democracy would continue to exist until such a time that the voters discover that they can literally vote themselves gifts from the public treasury. From the moment that revelation is made, the majority proceeds to vote for candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury. The final result is that democracy finally collapses due to loose fiscal policy. The collapse is followed by a dictatorship.

"Tyler charted the ages of the worlds greatest civilizations, an average of about two hundred years. Each time these nations progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith, to great courage. From great courage to liberty. From liberty to abundance. From abundance to complacency. From complacency to apathy to dependence. Then finally from dependence back into bondage.



From the book: Island of The Saints

Author: Andy Andrews