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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
That is the direct result of going liberal, and all your money goes to the people, not where it should. Pure democracies can't exist. Eventually the voters realize that they can vote money for themselves, and in doing so, bankrupt the system. You are almost towards going to a pure oligarchy, regardless what fancy name they give it from labor to socialism to communism, but you will probably collapse before that time. This will cause anarchy which will firmly push into a pure oligarchy. You still have a foot in the democracy camp and that will be your undoing. Only way for a truly prosperous nation, as history shows time and time again, is a Republic. You my friend are no longer even close to a Republic. The rise of Rome was based on a Republic. The fall of Rome was based on a Monarchy.
That's what keeps scaring me in the US. They keep calling our Republic a Democracy on the news. Our founding fathers created a Republic, not a Democracy. As anyone can tell you that knows the five types of Government are, a Democracy (mob rule) is only a transition stage. It cannot truly exist for long term. It is either a transition to a Monarchy or an Oligarchy, or a transition to a Republic, and I can tell you, we are not heading towards a Republic regardless what our country was founded on.
A new world order is upon us. But we deserve it. The people of any nation get the government they deserve....
-S
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If you're referring to Plato's Republic, it's hardly a republic in the modern sense, or even what the Founding Fathers created.
Plato's Republic was simply a dictatorship by a wise man. The problem with that is that everybody fancies himself a wise man, but few men are truly wise.