How the U.S. government enslaves Americans

A quote has been attributed by many to an historian named Alexander Tytler (1747-1813) in which he predicted that democracies could not endure, because people don't want to take responsibility for their own choices. While America is a republic, we are gradually adopting the principles of a democracy. Tytler is reputed to have said the following:

"In a democratic society, people will invariably hand over their sovereign responsibility and freedom to that government which promises the most benefits.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority only vote for candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, followed by a dictatorship.

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"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations progress 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 complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again into bondage."

Regardless of the origin of these quotes, I have a question for you: Does any of the above sound familiar, even vaguely familiar? Perhaps one of the most chilling statements is that civilizations rise and fall in 200-year cycles. If this is true, America is almost 40 years overdue for collapse and dictatorship. The really scary part to me is the sense of dependency all around us right now, encouraged by politicians, bureaucrats, social workers and think-tank elitists who sanctimoniously pontificate, "We don't want anyone to fail."

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The problem is, failure or success are choices made by the individual, and this is especially true in America in 2015. However, the elitists say, "We want everyone to share equally. We want everyone to have everything they want. The government will take care of you. If you don't want to struggle and sacrifice to succeed, that's OK."

Here's where it gets sticky: To ensure that the successes of those people who are willing to struggle and sacrifice don't make the non-strugglers feel bad, they punish the achievers. They take from "the haves" and give freely to the "have-nots." What they're saying in effect is, "Not to worry, the government will take care of you cradle to grave. That way, nobody fails. What could be fairer?" That kind of thinking produces socialism, communism and now what we have in America – a runaway welfare state.

The thing is, the so-called "safety net" we hear so much about doesn't actually keep anyone from failing. The elitists encourage and, in fact, actually guarantee mass failure by removing the incentive to work, take risks and succeed. They eliminate the rewards of the Judeo-Christian virtues of hard work, sacrifice, personal responsibility and thrift. What they are doing is promulgating the position that the government is responsible for supporting the "have nots." It's called socialism, and it has been tried; it fails miserably, yet the bureaucrats, pseudo intellectuals and social engineers keep trying to implement it in America. They continue to expand the social bureaucracy and pour money into a failed welfare system. Almost 50 years and more than $22 trillion after launching the "Great Society" and its child, "The War on Poverty," we are actually farther away than ever from the stated goal of eliminating poverty.

Why? It's simple. We discourage people from achieving and becoming productive by taking away their incentive, their sovereign responsibility and their freedom to fail. It is a horribly malignant, degrading thing to take away a person's right to fail. That in itself is an act of enslavement.

We pledge and give our allegiance (and our fair share of taxes) to our government – but not our personal sovereignty and decisionability. We are to take responsibility for our own lives, and our own successes or failures, because we, not the government, are the masters. In America, we the people are endowed with the power to succeed and the freedom to fail.

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