Why democracy doesn't work::Joseph Farah

"It pains me when I hear President Bush – and so many others – talk about the need to spread democracy around the world.
America's founders knew what a rotten and corrupt system of government democracy was and did everything in their power to ensure our country would never become one.
Why is democracy rotten and corrupt?
'A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. "

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