America was founded as a Republic, with checks and balances through the 3 branches of government, and with the founding fathers knowing from history and warning of what was to come. As the great empire of the last 50+ years, it has since exported it’s ‘brand’ to the whole world while all the time in the hands of the globalists. What a coup for them!
Certainly, we all know to a large extent this has come home to roost as things continue to disintegrate at an alarming pace around the world.
So, will “democracy” actually usher in the final leader? You must be the judge and act according to your beliefs. Not to decide is to decide.
Mary Miller, a key staff member at Koinonia House, Chuck Missler’s effective ministry, has hit the nail on the head here. She has given us permission to republish this piece. Other than a faulty pre-trib orientation, in our opinion, this will curl your toes…
If it doesn’t, please check your pulse, pray, and read it again!
But first, a few historical quotes to set the scene for those of you who are 1) still convinced America the Beautiful will pull out of the free fall into tyranny, and 2) in the know that time is getting very, very short to prepare.
“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.” Plato (428 BC-348 BC)
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.” Aristotle (384-322 BC)
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)
“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), and just after the completion and signing of the Constitution, in reply to a woman’s inquiry as to the type of government the Founders had created, Franklin said, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following 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 to bondage.” Alexander Tytler (1747-1813) (On the fall of Athenian republic)
“The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.” Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
“Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.” Karl Marx, 1848, author of “The Communist Manifesto”
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913)
“I have unwittingly ruined my country.” – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, upon passage of Federal Reserve Act, 1913
A definition:
A Republic is representative government ruled by law (like the Constitution of the USA). A democracy is direct government ruled by the majority (mob rule).
REPUBLIC:
- Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
- Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
- A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.
- Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or ‘mobocracy.’
- Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.
- Is the “standard form” of government throughout the world.
DEMOCRACY:
- A government of the masses.
- Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of “direct” expression.
- Results in ‘mobocracy.’
- Attitude toward property is communistic–negating property rights.
- Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
- Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
Democracy and the Final World Leader
[This article recently appeared in the April 2011 issue of The News Journal of Koinonia House. It is reprinted in its entirety with permission of the author.]
Mary Miller, Executive Analyst, Koinonia Institute, www.khouse.org
“Democracy” is a word heralded via many media venues these days. It makes sense as “we the people” have been engaging in angry uprisings in various spots around the globe for a host of reasons. For our discussion, the reasons behind the uprisings are not as important as the one key commonality – change in leadership.
Democracy is considered a form of political organization in which all people, through consensus, direct referendum, or elected representatives exercise equal control over the matters which affect their interests. [Read more…]