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The Crash of Civilization, by Charles A. Kohlhaas – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Charles A. Kohlhaas, MRC TV, October 22, 2024

Democracies are inherently unstable and, therefore, short-lived. That was true for the first “cradle of democracy,” Athens, in the fifth century B.C., and is demonstrably true now.

Madison noted in Federalist Articles 10, 14, 19, and 39, 240 years ago, reasons the United States was established as a republic; not a democracy. Socrates pointed out to the Athenians their democracy would not last very long. We know how they, in typical tolerant democrat fashion, responded to that, although he was right.

Nevertheless, his student, Plato, and in turn, his student, Aristotle, refined the concept and gave us the concept and structure of a Republic. The Greeks gave us vowels and taught us how to defend ourselves, how to govern ourselves, and how to think and laid the foundations for Western Civilization which has led the world, with some slow periods, providing innovation, advancement, and prosperity for its people for the last 2,500 years. …

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