{"id":325938,"date":"2017-09-14T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-decline-from-democracy-to-tyranny\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T00:01:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T23:01:40","slug":"the-decline-from-democracy-to-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-decline-from-democracy-to-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decline From Democracy to Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The decline from democracy to tyranny is both a natural and inevitable one.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not a pleasant thought to have to consider, but it\u2019s a fact, nonetheless. In every case, a democracy will deteriorate as the result of the electorate accepting the loss of freedom in trade for largesse from their government. This process may be fascism, socialism, communism, or a basket of \u201cisms,\u201d but tyranny is the inevitable endgame of democracy. Like the destruction of a sandcastle by the incoming tide, it requires time to transpire, but in time, the democracy, like the sandcastle, will be washed away in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>Why should this be so? Well, as I commented some years ago,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The concept of government is that the people grant to a small group of individuals the ability to establish and maintain controls over them. The inherent flaw in such a concept is that any government will invariably and continually expand upon its controls, resulting in the ever-diminishing freedom of those who granted them the power.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, there will always be those who wish to rule, and there will always be a majority of voters who are complacent enough and na\u00efve enough to allow their freedoms to be slowly removed. This adverb \u201cslowly\u201d is the key by which the removal of freedoms is achieved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/specials-gold\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=gold_specials\"><em><strong>Buy Gold at Discounted Prices<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The old adage of \u201cboiling a frog\u201d is that the frog will jump out of the pot if it\u2019s filled with hot water, but if the water is lukewarm and the temperature is slowly raised, he\u2019ll grow accustomed to the temperature change and will inadvertently allow himself to be boiled.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s have a look at Thomas Jefferson\u2019s assessment of this technique:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Even under the best forms of Government, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/09\/no_author\/decline-democracy-tyranny\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decline from democracy to tyranny is both a natural and inevitable one. That\u2019s not a pleasant thought to have to consider, but it\u2019s a fact, nonetheless. In every case, a democracy will deteriorate as the result of the electorate accepting the loss of freedom in trade for largesse from their government. This process may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-325938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}