Democracy countdown?

This is my first time hearing this. I don't listen to 99% of the political banter out there and I insta-delete these e-mails. But I found this one interesting and decided I would really like to get some other people's opinions about it. Some of these points made sounded very valid. Tell me what you think:

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their newconstitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor atthe University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of theAthenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: "A democracy is alwaystemporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form ofgovernment. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time thatvoters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from thepublic treasury."From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates whopromise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the resultthat every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy,which is always followed by a dictatorship."

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from thebeginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage

"Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul,Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000 Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million Bush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2 Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory that Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of thisgreat country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of ProfessorTyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase. If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

**edit by jamyhawk. This last line made me question if any of the rest of the items were true. I know that the states carried was 30-20 per wikipedia, but a political statement at the end made me think the rest of the story could be bent to appear any way they want it to. I decided to check it out on snopes and found this: CLICK HERE.

I should have deleted 100% of those emails instead of 99%.