“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a “warm body” democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction…. Once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome.”
____ This is a quote on DEMOCRACY by the prolific and great SCIFI writer Robert Heinlein.
This brilliant observation rests I believe in his book "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" one of 28 influential books he wrote. One of the Big Three -Asminov and Arthur C. Clarke the others.
Please also look at the comments on Presidential Election Journalism by another Contemporary Science Fiction Authors...the famous Orson Scott Card on his column wrote recently! WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD!!!
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