 will this be your america  in 887 alexander tyler a scottish history professor at the university of edinburgh had this to say about the fall of the athenian republic some 2000 years prior   a democracy is always temporary in nature it simply cannot exist as a permanent form o government a democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury from that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over 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 these nations always 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 complacency from complacency to apathy from apathy to dependence from dependence back into bondage  the obituary follows  born 1776 died 2012 it doesn t hurt to read this several times professor joseph olson of hamline university school of law in st paul minnesota points out some interesting facts concerning the last presidential election number of states won by obama 19 romney 29 square miles of land won by obama 580000 romney 2427000 population of counties won by obama 127 million romney 143 million murder rate per 100000 residents in counties won by obama 132 romney 21 professor olson adds   in aggregate the map of the territory romney 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 if you are in favor of this then by all means delete this message if you are not then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom is this the amrica you want make a difference get involved  20  