That said, there is a quote often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville; “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” But, that is actually a variant of Alexander Francis Tytler misattributed to de Tocqueville:

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy

[emphasis-ed.]

There are many folks in modern America that will testify to the lax fiscal policy of the last 20 years, and the unbounded fiscal policy of Obama.

His redistributionist policies seem to reach for the scenario outlined in Tytler’s maxim, ensuring that a majority will permanently vote for the party promising the most largesse-in other words the Democrats. Still others will characterize his ideology as a tact to achieving the greater result of replacing our representative democracy with one of the other options Tytler mentions; and regardless of the benevolence, in the final analysis a tyrant is always just that-a tyrant…

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We seniors are a stubborn breed in Canada!

We seniors are a stubborn breed in Canada!

I would have to endorse that and go even further .......
Mark Steyn (my Hero) and Ezra Levant spoke to Canada's Parliament making the case for freedom of speech over the right not to be offended.