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Here's something I found. I'm sure it's been posted here at DU before, but it does provide somewhat of an answer to your question about "When will this country wake the f up and see what this administration is?"
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed 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 Sir Alex Fraser Tyler, 1742-1813, Scottish Jurist and Historian
And another description by an anonymous writer:
"Nations richer and more powerful in thier day then we are in this have been sabotaged, defeated, enslaved.
Babylon was the largest and richest nation of its time, but its lust for luxury made it an easy mark for the Medes and Persians who overran it, and divided its land and enslaved the people between them.
Rome was a greater military power than we ever were, but when free bread and circuses became more important to the people than hard work and patriotism, Rome was invaded and looted by the Vandals.
The Incas were the most civilized, richest peoples in the Americas, but ruthless, better-armed invaders destroyed them as a nation, and looted everything they owned and had spent generations in creating.
In every case it was the self indulgent weakness of the victim which made victory of the invader easier.
Undoubtedly there were Babylonians, Romans, and Incans who warned against overindulgence and weakness, who warned that each nation is responsible for his nation, and that that responsibility cannot be shrugged off on officials. But to those who warned of impending trouble, there was then as now the smug sneer, 'It can't happen here.'
But it did."
"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 time on the majority always votes for the candidates that promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fical policy, always followed by a dictatorship." Sir Alex Fraser Tyler
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