The fall of democracy. Me first!

Alexander Tyler wrote about the Athenian Empire nearly 2500 years ago,
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (generous gifts) 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, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship” “The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years.”

No civilization has ever escaped from or reversed this trend once the tipping point is reached. I believe that we have reached the tipping point. The re-election of Obama is the acknowledgement that the culture of the West will collapse. I do not believe this is opposed to Obama’s ideology. Romney ran on a stronger economy (which means you have to work), a stronger defense (which means you have to fight), a return to traditional values and concern about the financial well-being of the next generation. America just voted to reject these.

This is the evidence of what I have often termed the Greek cake. The semblance of Judeo-Christian values was the icing on the Greek cake. That icing is now gone. What we have left is the Greek cake where I am the only one who really matters. If the government promises to give me what I want, then I really don’t care about anyone else. Every fabricated division in this race is based on this premise. My needs come first! This, of course, is dramatically opposed to Hebriac-biblical values. But as we now know, just in case we didn’t already know, America no longer lives by these values.