https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/...132325489.html

By all means, someone please explain why Trump isn't a socialist clown, and why this, like all Trump promises, is making "America Great", and not, you know, currying favor to distract opposition with literal debt checks while expanding the debt on a scale unseen by even liberal/progressive/quasi-socialist presidents, all while you know, promising not to?


Alexander Fraser Tytler:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. "