Alexander Tyler wrote:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote
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largess out of the public treasury."
This assumes there is a "majority of voters". Read James Madison, & kiss a multiculturalist today.
But what we actually have is countless pluralities voting to rob each other. The game would work, except for entropy, in the form of transaction costs. With each theft from one group to the other and back again, some money is lost -- so the tension between groups increases as each demands a larger share of a smaller pie. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNF6E9zKf8mIpTvjWEQJqVgCdG36Rp9e5JpDeVNDhvR0PVa3pG/QAoIqH wcgfeDhIpl8kP4Lz0qkA0W6v =lktW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----