America depends on the wisdom and self restraint of - citizens, which is opposed by Posted: Feb 21st, 2019 - 10:35 am In Reply to: Venezuela was my home, and socialism destroyed it - Slowly, it will destroy America, too.
the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it, which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.’ ‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.
Paraphrasing Robert A. Heinlein
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