Musing America’s Fate

ArticleVBlog ^ | November 11th 2019 | Rodney Dodsworth

[Jacquerie]

Like everyone else, I think about America’s future. Are we near the end of a century-old slide into soft tyranny or is worse yet to come? Can we possibly renew our first principles? America recovered from another Civil War when fate’s response to the horrors of 1861-1865 was the end of an institution that had no place in the land of the Declaration of Independence.

Neither people nor nations can evade their destinies. When previously successful and free nations fell into ridiculous and illogical errors that threatened their very existence, perhaps it was the hand of God Himself that intervened.

In 390 BC, Cisalpine Gauls sacked Rome. After a series of senseless and unforced diplomatic mistakes, the Romans so much as invited attack, against which the politically divided republic was incapable of a united defense. Instead of appointing a dictator to levy troops and supplies, the hastily formed and nearly leaderless army that met the Gauls only ten miles from Rome promptly scattered on first contact. With most of Rome’s men in retreat to surrounding cities, the Gauls rushed through the city’s open gates, and enjoyed their bloodlust. Only the very Capitol itself survived the onslaught and remained in Roman hands. Fortunately, after burning the city and much of its written records, the Gauls didn’t remain as conquerors; they simply left with their booty.

Now, anyone with passing familiarity knows the Roman state was built for war. How could this disaster happen? The Roman historian Livy, in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy, believed in no uncertain terms,

Destiny blinds men’s eyes when she is determined that her gathering might shall meet no check! When she wishes to bring about great calamities, she places men in charge who will contribute to that disaster. If there is anyone

[FreedomPoster]

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[joma89]

I have seen many places in the rest of the world. By replacing Americans with people who grew up in those other places, we will lose the heart and soul of what makes the USA great and that is the loss of individual freedoms.

We will become a nacro-state or a banana republic or a war lording society, just like so many third world countries.

I see the US going the way of South Africa.

JoMa

[Jack Black]

I think more like Russia.

[exnavy]

The dems believe FDR was the best ever, sad.

[foreverfree]

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