“Tripartite States. These are states in which one-third of the people work to create wealth, one-third are employed by government at some level (when we include all full-time and part-time employees and permanent government contracts), and one-third receive significant annual income or benefits in kind from government. Once this final stage of the democratic mutation is reached, there can be no return except from eventual catastrophic decline, for in the voting booth, sooner or later, the last two segments will always gang up on the first. William D. Gairdner” PoliticsCommentatorsSociety And Culture Author:William D. Gairdner