History Tells Us That Democracies Never Last

Why is that? Could it be that an ignorant electorate who always vote for “free stuff” is the beginning of the end?

Who votes for full dependency and welfare from the federal government?

Elected in 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, collectively known as “the Squad” all embrace socialist-regressive ideas like government run healthcare (Medicare for All), price controls, an ever-increasing minimum wage, uncontrolled borders, DEI, free college and abolishing ICE. Their voting scorecard reveals how they vote and clearly, they vote for full dependency on the government.

Pressley defeated Massachusetts Rep. Mike Capuano (D), a 20-year incumbent, in the Boston-area 7th district that has a 17% poverty rate and 2023 median household income of $88,740.00, which John F. Kennedy once represented.

AOC also defeated 20-year incumbent Joseph Crowley (D), representing New York’s 14th Congressional District, which includes the eastern Bronx and northern Queens, and has an 18.6% poverty rate and median household income of $68,421.00.

Rashida Tlaib of Michigan represents Michigan’s 13th Congressional District which has a 25% poverty rate and median household income of $49,877.00. Tlaib was the first Muslim woman to serve in the Michigan state legislature.

Ilhan Omar of Minnesota represents Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District which has a 15.5% poverty rate and median household income of $82,865.00. She covers her head like a good little Muslim woman.

They are all avowed socialists. Who votes for socialists like Bernie Sanders and AOC, who are currently convincing the public that THEY have the answer on their Fight Oligarchy tour?

Socialists want to spend other people’s money (our tax dollars) and will always vote for socialists who create dependency on the government. This never ends well because the government now controls everything. Have we not learned this lesson throughout history’s repeated failures of socialism? Apparently not.

And, then we have representatives like this:

Since 1991, for 34 years, Representative Rosa L. DeLauro has represented Connecticut, District 3 which has a 10.4% poverty rate and median income of $87,866.00.

Or classy Jasmine Crockett who represents Texas’ 30th district which has a 16.5% poverty rate with an average median household income of $69,722.00.

Delaware has one U.S. representative, Sarah McBride, a freshman representative joining the 119^th House of Representatives. Sarah was a man and in 2014 had the full surgery to “become” an XY “woman” or better known as a “patient for life.”

209,596 Delawareans did not vote for McBride. Unfortunately, 78,215 more Delawareans voted for McBride, thus creating the conundrum that democracies create when the circus crazies run the show. Have we not endured enough with multi-millionaire, old Joe Tater? And how does a career politician like Joe Tater make his millions so he can live a life of luxury for himself and his family that no ordinary American would ever experience? House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) found the money trail but not many people seem to care. Why is that?

“Congresswoman” Sarah McBride states: “Working to deliver for all Delawareans”

Well, that is an outright lie. I’m a (non-native) Delawarean and no, Sarah, I do not want my tax dollars paying for transgender anything, but Delawareans MUST pay for transgender sex change operations/hormones for criminals in prison, along with planning transgender day activities, etc. to waste more money on DEI.

How is that fair to the 209,596 Delawareans who did not vote for this?

I’ll call you Sarah if that is your preference, but Sarah, all girls and women are at risk if ANY penis comes into any woman’s bathroom. (Pun intended.) When responding to Rep. Nancy Mace’s concern that only biological women should go to the Congressional women’s bathroom, Sarah McBride got 9.1K likes for this post:

No solutions? What is DOGE? Oh, that’s right – the long overdue federal audit that exposes how much taxpayers pay for everything transgender+. Sarah says:

In 2012, Tim McBride’s childhood friend, Liz Richards, wrote a letter in American University’s The Eagle promoting college sophomore Tim McBride for president of student government.

“This letter is about setting the record straight. Tim McBride is a caring, empathetic, passionate person who does not take his privilege for granted. Yes, he is a white male. But that doesn’t mean that he cares about diversity only when it benefits him politically.”

In June 2012, Tim wrote his self-congratulatory “Real Me” Op Ed. He is no longer a “privileged” white male anymore; he is a now a “protected” victim, as a trans-person. Why do people want to be victims?

McBride’s voting record is predictable: more dependency on the federal (and state) government and McBride, as a Delaware state senator, drafted and tried to pass “gender affirming care” for minors mimicking California law, which is child abuse. The bill died thanks to the efforts of groups like Delaware Families who fight the good fight to promote traditional family values.

What experience does Sarah McBride bring to Congress? LGBTQI+activism. That’s it. McBride came from a wealthy family and never worked in the private sector and appears to want to be a career politician, like his idol, Joe Biden. His first full-time job was a brief stint “working’ as a research assistant on Center for American Progress (CAP)’s LGBTQI+ Rights policy team for the “independent nonpartisan policy institute.” Who funds CAP? CAP is not transparent about its funding.

That alone should be a disqualifier to run for office. (Never had a real job in the private sector.)

Although the above examples represent only a socialist sampling of the 435 representatives to the U.S. House, these democrats represent their party’s ideal to create dependency on the government, along with too many Republican representatives and senators as well, as detailed in Congressional roll call votes.

Dependency on the government never works out well for anyone.

According to historian Alexander Tytler, all democracies, even constitutional republics, lead to dictatorships after the people become dependent on the government for survival. That makes a lot of sense.

As Jefferson warned us, "Government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have."

While our Founding Fathers were throwing tea out in the Boston Harbor and revolting against British tyranny, Scottish professor, Alexander Fraser Tytler gave lectures critical of democracies and was forming what is now known as the Tytler Cycle.

Goodreads attributes this quote from Alexander Fraser Tytler:

“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 selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”

Encylopedia Britanica does not list Alexander Tytler; I guess he is that obscure, but he has a Wikipedia page, which may not be the best source, but it does attribute foot notes to the quotes that Tytler argued:

In discussing the Athenian democracy, after noting that a great number of the population were actually enslaved, he went on to say, "Nor were the superior classes in the actual enjoyment of a rational liberty and independence. They were perpetually divided into factions, which servilely ranked themselves under the banners of the contending demagogues; and these maintained their influence over their partisans by the most shameful corruption and bribery, of which the means were supplied alone by the plunder of the public money".^[16]

Speaking about the measure of freedom enjoyed by the people in a republic or democracy, Tytler wrote, "The people flatter themselves that they have the sovereign power. These are, in fact, words without meaning. It is true they elected governors; but how are these elections brought about? In every instance of election by the mass of a people—through the influence of those governors themselves, and by means the most opposite to a free and disinterested choice, by the basest corruption and bribery. But those governors once selected, where is the boasted freedom of the people? They must submit to their rule and control, with the same abandonment of their natural liberty, the freedom of their will, and the command of their actions, as if they were under the rule of a monarch".^[17]

Tytler dismisses the more optimistic vision of democracy by commentators such as Montesquieu as "nothing better than an Utopian theory, a splendid chimera, descriptive of a state of society that never did, and never could exist; a republic not of men, but of angels", for "While man is being instigated by the love of power—a passion visible in an infant, and common to us even with the inferior animals—he will seek personal superiority in preference to every matter of a general concern".^[18]

It's not like we don’t have history to fall back on how republican democracies always fail.

While most historians rate Edward Gibbon’s classic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, written between 1776 – 1788, as accurate in naming the rise of barbarian invasion, corruption of politicians, devaluing the money supply which brought on the decline of living standards, leading to decadence and a lack of morality echoing Juvenal’s satiric poetry, many historians disagree with his assessment that the rise of Christianity contributed to the decline. Constantine moved the capitol from Rome to Constantinople in 476 (when the Western empire fell) and the Christian Byzantine empire thrived until falling to the Muslim Ottman empire in 1453.

Men are no angels.

Our founders did not intend for career politicians like Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Maxine Waters to exploit taxpayers by living in Congress and enriching themselves on the public’s money.

So what can we do about it? We have an extensive list of deficiencies in the Constitution – like needing term limits and a balanced budget – but one thing we could focus on is the quality of the electorate who vote and the quality of candidates qualified to run (must have worked in the private sector, successfully).

Let’s assume that President Trump is successful in downsizing the federal government and bringing back jobs so that America is a producer once more. Maybe he even puts the dollar back on the gold standard, and after a bump, bump, bumpy ride, while reducing draconian regulations and straightening out the global ecomony with retalitory tariffs, America can thrive again as a meritocracy. Our future looks golden. Or does it?

Unless America figures out how to revise our election laws to ensure that we have an educated electorate and qualifying candidates from the private sector, all the reductions in the federal government will be for naught, especially as those of us in the older generations who learned the history of socialist failures are dying off.

Qualifying candidates must have worked successfuly in the private sector and be of good moral character (ok, nevermind) but just by working in the private sector would make term limits a moot issue.

If the requirement to become a U.S. citizen is to be of good moral quality, why do we allow some states to encourage fraud by not requiring photo ID or by allowing felons to vote?

[The Trump administration updated its citizenship webpage.]

When registering to vote, why not require that all voters pass the citizenship test (in English) like the test that new citizens must take, including being of good moral character which would eliminate felons and long-term welfare recipients?

Repeat: Good moral character is a requirement to be a U.S. citizen. People who live off welfare in the land of opportunity do not have good moral character.

Why not require all voters to pass an American Government civics test.pdf? Legal immigrants have to pass it; registered voters need to pass it too.

Article I Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution requires that:

“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.”

But how can we do this when we do not have ¾ of the states on board? An Article V Convention of the States?

Some states like Delaware encourage voter fraud (no photo ID required) and allow felons to vote.

There are no states that have any requirements that collecting welfare bars a person from voting.

So, why do we allow voters who receive any form of welfare (individual and corporate) to vote? [Social security is a forced ponzi scheme, not welfare.]

Isn’t that a conflict of interest for those of us who struggle to pay our own bills and pay our taxes – sometimes even paying bills and taxes on a credit card, no less? We are suckers if we don’t make some changes!

As our founding fathers understood, democracy must be controlled through the Constitution. But, we do not follow that anymore, and we know there are many more deficiencies that need to be corrected, but the fact that we allow ignorant people who live off welfare to vote for you and me to pay for them to live on the dole is quite maddening!

Unless the Constitution is amended to create uniform election laws requiring the same standards for voting as are required in becoming a U.S. citizen, and require standards for candidates, it remains doubtful that we will enter our golden era.