Action Update - Issue 16 :: July 1, 2004

THE CYCLE OF DEMOCRACY

Thoughts to ponder on this Liberty weekend:

"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 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 due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the worlds 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."

America, we are now somewhere between the "apathy" and "complacency" phase of the democracy cycle with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

Think about it.

Let Freedom Ring.

OUR FIRST PRESIDENT: RONALD WILSON REAGAN

Reagan's X Generation Legacy

By Jorge Uresti

Within the awakening years of a generation, the time when the young come to self-awareness, when the sincerity of childhood is lost to the burdens of a lost and careless world, we, those of us born of the greatest demographic to have ever lived, had the great communicator to guide us thru a perilous era, had a leader of incredible inner strength guided by an unseen hand to a more glorious place, a home where we and ours could live to enjoy the blessings of the prayers of those before us, and the fruit of their labor in peace, a state which foreign to us, quenched our thirst for an ease of mind to which we were not accustomed.

As Reagan said, “The years ahead will be great ones for our country” and “I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.”

Our collective childhood did not witness the wholesale transparent wars between good and evil as those did before us, world wars between right and wrong, as did our parents and theirs. Rather, we lived in a perpetual state of an impending doom, a fear and loathing of what the young had no control over, in a warless battle fought with the life of our of nation in the balance against an enemy realized but never actively engaged. <CONTINUED>