Here’s how to destroy a democracy

Here are several ways to destroy a democracy:

• Deplete the military
• Disarm the citizenry
• Have a nation dependent on welfare
• Don’t maintain national security
• Have no law and order
• Support the death of journalism
• Encourage political correctness instead of truth
• Reward family separations
• Forsake veterans
• Divide and conquer
• Defame heroes
• Nurture self-indulgence
• Have Godless orientations
• Be fiscally irresponsible
• Elect incompetent members of Congress
• Eliminate craftsmen and small businesses

This story was originally published September 20, 2016 at 9:00 AM with the headline "Here’s how to destroy a democracy."