Dan Smoot Warned in 1966: 'Democracy Will Lead to Dictatorship, Poverty, and Serfdom'

"A democracy is a political system in which the people periodically, by majority vote at the polls, select their rulers. The rulers then have absolute power to make whatever laws they please."

"In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our republic and transforming it into a democracy."

"[Benjamin Franklin] saw through the mists of time to the day when Americans might trade their freedom in a constitutional republic, for the promise of government-guaranteed equality and security in a democracy."

"And beyond that, to the day when democracy inevitably degenerates into dictatorship, guaranteeing nothing but poverty and serfdom for the people it robs and rules."

– Dan Smoot, author of The Invisible Government, speaking in 1966.