It was something about Athenian History, especially a timeline analysis about the Democracy there.
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He basically stated that a democracy is destined to fail due to people exchanging freedom for comfort.
From Bondage to Spiritual Faith
Spiritual Faith to courage
Courage breeds liberty
Liberty brings abundance
Abundance to complacency
Which leads to apathy
When one does not care, he begins to depend
on others to care in place of him, so
a certain dependence breeds
And once you depend on others to choose
for you, you are lead back into bondage
Bottom line, people want a smirking fool who promises
to dole out money to the so called “less fortunate”
He makes note of the worlds superpowers (which were democracies), and how they last an average of 200 years, always going through this cycle.
EDIT: This dependence always leads to a dictatorship,raised from the ashes of a fallen democracy. Once democracy is again established, the cycle begins a new.