by Rick Lowe
de Tocqueville, best known for his volume, Democracy in America, in which he wrote about his travels through America around 1831. We are told it was his attempt to help sort out the confusion in France between their aristocratic order and the new democratic order taking shape in the new world.
Here are four (quite profound) quotes from de Tocqueville:
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Find out more about him here… Order Democracy in America here…
Democracy in America is avaiable free on Kimble. I am looking forwards to the read, perhaps will find out what went wrong in the US of A.
Read again the four quotations in Rick’s blog citing Alex de Tocqueville, and you will see exactly where America has gone wrong.. Over the span of world history, no democracy as ever survived for over 250 years.. Nations do survive but the sacred values of democracy, liberty and individual freedom gradually give way to authoritarian rule under a socialist form of government.. The United States is not alone, just look at Great Britain and its decline since the end of World War II (1945).. Perhaps we better take note that our own beloved Bahamas may be falling into the very same trap.. Like the debt clock, time may be running out..