VOTE 2022

[arbol]

"Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy."

Alexander Tytler, historian. 1747-1813

I like it, but we are not a Democracy. We are a Republic.

Very disappointed in Colorado voters (and the subsequent Representatives)

-John

[Joe_K]

I like it, but we are not a Democracy. We are a Republic.

Very disappointed in Colorado voters (and the subsequent Representatives)

-John

With 9 out of 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto having already been accomplished in our Grandparents through our own lifetimes, I would argue that we are currently living in a Communist regime with lip service paid to the vestigial remains of a Constitutional Republican form of government that is publicly referred to as a ?Democracy?.

Never forget that both the Left Wing and the Right Wing are flapping on the same stupid dragon.

[eddiememphis]

I like it, but we are not a Democracy. We are a Republic.

Agreed.

The US and Colorado are constitutional republics with democratic institutions.

The quote was written over 200 years ago by a man on a different continent, when our colonies were still part of England.

He was a historian of Rome and Greece. His quote was an observation of Rome as it transitioned from a republic to monarchy and the peril of democracy, even a representative one such as ours.