In 1787 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinbergh spoke of how a democracy is never a permanent form of government and that the average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been about 200 years. During those 200 years 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
Its anyone's guess where America stands in that timeline.
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