{"id":21464,"date":"2024-09-07T23:43:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T23:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=21464"},"modified":"2024-09-08T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T15:15:44","slug":"history-shouldnt-repeat-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=21464","title":{"rendered":"Abundance Has Led America Back into Bondage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Historians believe America did more in its first two hundred years than had been achieved in the previous six thousand years of recorded history. The American Republic was to ensure a just and \u201clevel playing field\u201d for production and commerce and to allow people to provide for themselves with their own initiative and resourcefulness. This worked better than any economy in world history until the crash of 1929.<\/p>\n

Until the 1930s, the American federal government never had a mandate to provide for individual needs. In the American Republic, the government was designed for a strong and resourceful people, not a dependent one. It was the people\u2019s servant, existing to defend them, their rights, and property, not to make them dependent on the government for their provisions.<\/p>\n

In contrast, under Marxism, the government is the people\u2019s god whom they must trust and give allegiance to for all their provisions and needs. Karl Marx identified America as the chief enemy of Marxism. He believed socialism could not prevail until America and all Western-style republics were destroyed. At the time, America was by no means the most powerful nation. Yet Marx especially focused on the American Republic because he perceived it to be the source of increasing human freedom and an increasingly powerful free-market economy, which Marxism could not compete with.<\/p>\n

When you study the history of impoverished nations, you are going to find a Marxist-communistic restrictive and oppressive government system. The governments we live under have a vital role in the freedoms we enjoy.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why countries that have Marxist-communistic governments that deny people the right to be human, and the freedom to make choices and don\u2019t value human life are deeply impoverished nations. Marxism imposes a unity of conformity where individual expression becomes a threat to the state, which can bring swift and severe punishment and, of course, silence all creativity and innovation. These are spiritual governments people live under and they all operate under the kingdom of darkness which holds them in slavery to a life that lacks opportunity.<\/p>\n

A mirror from the past indicates nations and empires have \u201clife cycles.\u201d Many historians have studied this throughout the years, and all have come to the same conclusion: a lifetime of about two centuries.<\/p>\n

America developed into thirteen colonies, then into the strong 50 states she is today. When the thirteen colonies were still part of England, Professor Alexander Tytler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburg, wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic some 1000 years ago and he reportedly said:<\/p>\n

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote for money from the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, followed by a dictatorship.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The authenticity of this quote is often disputed and cannot be verified, but the words of the original author are still relevant to what is going on in America the West today.<\/p>\n

The author noted that the average age of the world\u2019s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years (the comparative data cannot prove this span of years).<\/p>\n

During those 200 years, however, these nations have always progressed<\/p>\n