>It's all pretty depressing, and makes one despair somewhat of democracy. The more things change the more they stay the same. "A democracy cannot exist as a p

>It's all pretty depressing, and makes one despair somewhat of democracy. The more things change the more they stay the same. "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." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville