student loan forgiveness plans? When will the madness stop if you get a President and Congress elected solely due to the free handouts they are proposing? How ignorant does one have to be to not see they are strictly paying for votes off of the responsible tax payers dime?
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The bank bail outs came after he was term limited.
they are pretty set in their ways.
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paid back their loans? What about people with future loans? Do they think about it? Both are typical irresponsible politicians from congress.
Actually, Bernie may actually believe the Commie bullshit he spouts since he would be the Commissar. Warren knows better which makes her even more of a shithead pandering dipshit.
Your privilege prevents you from understanding the problem.
the Sanders, warren, AOC crowd.
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....something about a democracy lasting until voters realize they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury....
“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.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler
There are a lot of parallels to our society, do people not realize that it always falls?
...if you start the clock after the Republic conquered all of the Mediterranean in the mid-second century BC. And then the eastern empire persisted for another thousand.
So that’s not a bad place to look for lessons.
So that's another feather in their cap.
Maybe America isn't brutal or imperialist enough to last 700 years, we seem to be somewhere on the back nine of the cycle described in the quote.
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There were precious few republics to learn from then. It’s not clear to me that there are any examples of the process he describes.
So we have that going for us. Which is nice.
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I've long said we should annex everything down to the Panama Canal and then Canada too is debatable. That would be a fine empire. Don'tcha think?
But the point isn't that, it's that there's a Peter Principle like progression that happens in any successful society. You disagree?
Certainly we are destroying our republic with debt, and destroying our freedoms. We don't have an emperor yet, though, contrary to claims by the Democrats.
great regret at what they have allowed and encouraged to occur. This Gen-Z/Millennial generation may very well be that generation(s) that sees the err in their way before they die... if not it, the next one will definitely take the brunt.
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