I put this on my Facebook page a month or two back but after reading today (Thanks Tara!) that attempts to change the Constitution are underway I decided to repost.
Stages of Democracy - Please Read/Share
I've been looking for this for weeks and I finally found it. I think I received it originally in an email so I don't know if the references to actual people are accurate, but regardless of who said all this they might have hit it right on the nose. The part that reminded me to find it again was that part about changing our inalienable rights and freedoms. Obama has stated that he thinks the Constitution has major flaws in that it does not provide for redistribution of wealth. You can google "Obama and constitution" if you don't believe me. When you keep digging you can also find him back in 2001 saying much the same and a little more. Now that we clearly have a voting public that is willing to place someone like him in office, what is to stop him from changing our most important document to suit "the times", i.e. his agenda.
If you didn't know here is all that is needed to amend the constitution.
Amending the Constitution is a two-part process: amendments must be proposed and then they must be ratified. Amendments can be proposed one of two ways. The only way that has been used to date is through a two-thirds majority vote in both houses of Congress.
Regardless of how the amendment is proposed, the amendment must be approved by three-fourths of states, a process called ratification. Depending on the amendment, this requires either the state legislatures or special state conventions to approve the amendment by simple majority vote. Amendments generally go to state legislatures to be ratified, only the Twenty-first Amendment called for special state conventions.
Take a look at Congress and the number of states that went to Obama, there ain't gonna be much resistance.
This, right here, is the reason to be aware of current events in our own country as well as those going on around the world. The world is changing right before our eyes and some of us just don't care enough to pay attention. We have become totally apathetic and expect the government to provide for us. So, if you are a friend of mine, conservative or liberal, please read this and think it over.
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"About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
"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."
"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage "
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota... believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase."
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IF that really is so - then the only stage left is #8 - From dependence back into bondage. What might that look like I wonder? Possibly the welfare state becoming openly socialist and increasingly totalitarian - possibly even a dictatorship? One thing is for sure - our civil liberties will become extinct in the name of "the public good" or "safety."
You know, the Founding Fathers saw this coming and cemented our inalienble human rights in the constitution so that all future laws and govt. actions had to keep these in the center of their thinking and rulings. But social progressives constantly want to redefine these rights and the constitution so that it can be "applied" to modern situations. In the end, all that does is make it easy for some dictator(s) to "redefine" our rights and the constitution so that they can "legally" take them away (so much for inalienable). Pretty scary!
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Ps. This blurb uses both the term "Democracy" and "Republic". By popular convention we refer to ourselves, incorrectly, as a Democracy. While the terms are closely related there is a difference. In a democracy the issues are decided by the people directly. In a republic, which we truly are, the issues are decided by representatives chosen by the people. Just wanted to clear that up. It's really my only gripe with the blurb above. :o) But republic or democracy we still have the same stages......
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