September 26, 2021
We're coming up on the bad part of the 'cycle of democracy'
By Earick Ward
The cycle of democracy is attributed to Scottish economist Alexander Tytler:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
With the restoration of Gavin Newsom to his California governorship through the failing 2021 recall process, the state cements its trajectory of collapse.
How did this arise, and what lessons can America glean from California's Democrat supermajority? Alexander Tytler's missive offers us some clues as we view the largess that the state has extended to, now, the plurality of its voters:
State employees
Mayors
Legislators
Teacher's unions
Nurse's unions
Prison unions'
Other public employee unions
Tenured college professors
The 30% of the nation's homeless
Gang members (paid to not kill people)
EBT recipients
Welfare recipients
Renters (who've had their rents waived)
Tech companies (who've had their monopolies protected)
Climate — ahem — scientists (dependent on government grants)
Universal Basic Income recipients
Medicare and CHIP recipients
And on and on and on.
more
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/were_coming_up_on_the_bad_part_of_the_cycle_of_democracy.html
