Time to vote?
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009

In the last few months it has certainly seemed extremely difficult not to get involved or annoyed by politics in some way, shape or form.

I must admit I tend to invest in the odd newspaper usually when I'm on a flight perhaps but it seems that just about any newspaper one buys (assuming you still do that occasionally) has writers that are stating causes or justifying the state of affairs that we are all exposed too, usually as common citizens in our everyday lives.

In other words it is no longer good enough just reporting what actually happens around us. Well who would have guessed that the exciting time of a general election is looming upon us.

Its ironic that where some of us have been losing unbudgeted lives fighting for the very right of democracy itself or just simply the existance of a fair vote, when it comes, it is deemed not to be actually fair due to the very corruption that was supposed to have been forcibly removed in the first place!

Then what about the professionals within our lovely health service that might not actually set some kind of example by refusing to take a swine flu jab, yet will happily professionally hand them out to the very people they are supposed to be setting an example to.

Nothing like being within an industry with inside knowledge perhaps.
The Tytler cycle states that a democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.

A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

Apparantly the average age of the world's greatest civilisations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.

Its no longer the question then 'which came first ' the Chicken or the egg' ' Its 'what comes last ' the melting of the ice caps or the exhaustion of all the food reserves on the planet?'