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Originally Posted by Ustwo
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great 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 selfishness;from selfishness to complacency;from complacency to apathy;from apathy to dependency;from dependency back again to bondage. - Sir Alex Fraser Tytler
Votes are already being bought directly with welfare checks, food stamps, health care, affirmative action. Indirectly with tax cuts, public facilities in your district, military bases/federal jobs in district, and other 'pork'.
Its only a matter of time.
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I'm at the apathy stage and if it wasn't for some local bond issues etc.. I'd give my vote away. The major parties have a monopoly on most national elections and both are trying to out do the other to grow the government ever larger and control more and more of our lives.