"A 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 complacency
From complacency to apathy
From apathy to dependence
From dependence back again into bondage."
Professor Alexander Tyler,
200 years ago while we were still a British Colony"

We appear to be at #7 these days.

Sounds right to me.

I have read that before...we are in #7 for sure.

Yes, we are at or past the tipping point.

Without question, another Democratic administration would fundamentally change the United States forever.

Byron

...Ronaduls Magnus...we could use you know...

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

Yes, from what I'm seeing the Republican Party has been much different than the Democratic Party of late.

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

The baseball fashion cap says little about the wearer.

Unless it sports a Simply Rugged leather patch.

"another Democratic administration would fundamentally change the United States forever."

I think the U.S. is already fundamentally changed......... for the worse.

The economy is non existent in spite of media cheerleading

Race relations have been set back more than 60 years

.22 ammunition is as scarce as hen's teeth (this one p*sses me off the worst)

and all I see in gun magazines are AR 15s and plastic pistols.

I'll use the plastic pistols (I had waterguns as a kid) but I ain't buying an AR (for a while anyway)

Pistols and rifles