Rise of the Tyrant - How Democracies & Republics Rise & Fall (Vol. 2 of Change to Chains)

"The story of the future is written in the past."-Lord Acton, 1877. Did you know Greek philosopher Plato predicted democracy would degenerate into anarchy once people lost their virtue, then a tyrant would arise? Did you know POWER inevitably concentrates into the hands of ONE person? What was the first nation in recorded history that attempted to rule itself without a king? (Hint: they left from Egypt around c.1400 BC). How do democracies and republics get taken over by tyrants? Learn predictive insights from Ancient Israel, Athenian Democracy, Roman Republic, Machiavelli, Hegel, Marx and Saul Alinsky. The rare experiments in self-government only worked as long as citizens had virtue. When virtue is gone, chaos ensues, followed by a call for a strong leader to restore order - but he yields to the temptation to become a tyrant. Read how Caesar "fundamentally changed" Rome's Republic into a dictatorship? George Washington warned in his Farewell Address, 1796: "Disorders and miseries ...