{"id":1737,"date":"2010-03-29T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T11:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2010-03-29T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T11:39:19","slug":"something_to_remember_as_we_ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1737","title":{"rendered":"Something To Remember As We Approach the 2010 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: OldCentury; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\">&#8220;A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.&nbsp; It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.<\/span><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: OldCentury\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: OldCentury; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"3\">&#8220;From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Calibri\">This quote is attributed to Alexander Tyler.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>There are efforts to disprove this.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>They are noted at the site where I got the quote, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrisley.com\/cycle.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\" size=\"3\" face=\"Calibri\">http:\/\/www.wrisley.com\/cycle.htm<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\" face=\"Calibri\">.<\/font><\/span><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.&nbsp; It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. &#8220;From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1737\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}