Dr. Frank Rosenbloom has an insightful piece at The American Thinker on how Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama is really a modern-day plebian tyrant in the footsteps of those from the days of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Aristotle warned: “Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.” The Federalist papers show us that the founding fathers understood this all too well. Just as the Roman Senate became more “democratic”, so to our own Senate changed from being indirectly elected to direct popular election in 1913. We were founded as a republic partly because democracies become weaker as they grow whereas republics can become stronger.
Yet we elect populists, like Chairman Obama, whose unaffordable promises and unconstitutional actions, after the manner of Tiberius Gracchus, Caesar, and Octavian, will be recorded in history as the beginning of the end of our republic. We slip further into a “democracy” of dependence on government and control by it. Inevitably, we too will degenerate into despotism and tyranny. This has already begun. From antiquity through the present, great thinkers like Aristotle and our founding fathers have warned us of the dangers of repeating the mistakes of prior civilizations. Those who survive us will learn how the selfish majority, at the behest of power hungry political elitists, accepted subjugation in exchange for benefits and thereby sowed the seeds (or acorns) of our destruction.
Barack Obama: Plebeian politician to Senator to Dictator wannabe. The USA: republic, to democratic dictatorship and then despotism. It not only can happen, but it will, unless we learn from history and prevent its repetition.
Read the whole thing, especially the history lesson on just how Rome got to that point and how we are at the same point.
Et tu, Brute?
Ah well. It’s not like despotism destroyed Rome instantly – it managed to last significantly longer in its imperial stage than America has existed in total.
…Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
A soberingly sad commentary to be sure. I suspect that things started a few administrations earlier, but I digress. In any event, the following pretty much sums things up for me:
http://www.cafepress.com/usa21stcentury
“lasting” is not the same as “being free”. Between 1865 and 1913 we were the sort of country we were suppose to be. Unemployment was not an issue. Money was sound. Growth was explosive. Self-responsibility was assumed by all. Our problems today are a result of 100 years of the progressive philosophy. And too much “democracy” (read “rule of the majority of voters”).