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<blockquote data-quote="Bubblehead" data-source="post: 2147316" data-attributes="member: 14176"><p>If he wins, which is likely, he will step down long before the next General Election.</p><p>He will give way to KH, actually he already has long ago.</p><p>This is a time honored tradition in the Teamsters, as it is always infinitely easier to win an election as an incumbent, than as a challenger.</p><p></p><p>This quote is in relation to governmental politics, but seems applicable to Union politics, but at an accelerated rate:</p><p></p><p><em>“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. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” </em></p><p>― <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5451872.Alexander_Fraser_Tytler" target="_blank">Alexander Fraser Tytler</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bubblehead, post: 2147316, member: 14176"] If he wins, which is likely, he will step down long before the next General Election. He will give way to KH, actually he already has long ago. This is a time honored tradition in the Teamsters, as it is always infinitely easier to win an election as an incumbent, than as a challenger. This quote is in relation to governmental politics, but seems applicable to Union politics, but at an accelerated rate: [I]“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. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” [/I] ― [URL='https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5451872.Alexander_Fraser_Tytler']Alexander Fraser Tytler[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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