Near the end, about a third of the population of Italy were slaves.
Rome grew when it had citizens who owned their own land and would fight ferociously to defend it.
Rome collapsed when the wealthy imported massive numbers of cheap slave labor, and the jobless citizenry no longer was willing to fight.
Another surrender monkey parade where Soros trolls and FR’s gloom-and-doom defeatists can strut their stuff.
No republic escapes anacyclosis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacyclosis
Who will be out Caesar and cross the Rubicon?
There have been civilizations that lasted far longer than The US.
Just ask your Sumerian ambassador about his.
As long as demonrats are tolerated and allowed to exist this country is inevitably doomed.
If AOC and the Dems have their way the USA would fall in a week.
According to the evolutionists, almost all species go extinct too. So we have that going for us.
And astronomers say the Sun will supernova eventually.
So in the words of Solomon..."Eat Drink and be Merry for tomorrow we die."
I give this thread the Depression stamp of approval.
President Retard is piddling while the country burns down financially 🤪
Libtards are even more decadent than the Romans
Let's at least wait and see if America will last as long as the Roman Republic before making such a judgment.
It’s already crumbling. It won’t be long now. America is done.
The Roman and American republics were/are built on geographic and economic expansion. The question for both is what happens when that expansion hits a wall?
After taking Gaul, Africa and beyond, the Roman republic ate its own, which Augustus saved from itself, while killing the republic. America is far more dynamic, but we’re amidst an internal gyration that could go either way. So far, the empire seems to be winning, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
We will be invaded...likely by China. Our government officials will give in without a fight.
“The good news is that America has stronger foundations than Rome ever knew, and those foundations not only seem to be holding, many Americans are rediscovering those foundations in the midst of a modern contest for the soul of the nation.”
The key words in this statement are “seem to be” holding. I’m sure the captain of the Titanic may have had the same thoughts before he tore into the iceberg that killed them.
Rome is a good analogy but clearly not the only one. There are many other civilizations that have come and gone in world history. In fact, they all go perhaps with the exception of China. One can certainly argue about China because they reinvented themselves so often over the last 3000 or so years that they look like a chameleon.
We have been blessed here in the US by so many good hands. Among them are...
-Founded as a Christian nation that was supported and touched by God from our founding (he may have given up, though)
-Brilliant founders who had the intellect and wisdom to understand history and the ability to design a unique system of government to protect us from ourselves (unlike many other civilizations)
-Blessed by geography (bordered by two huge oceans)that kept the bad guys out of our land. Unfortunately, it has not done so well with the bad guys in the land.
-A newly settled land by people who were motivated and willing to leave their home country and come here to make a better life. For a long while, they worked very hard at doing that.
Will we make it through this period? Right now it doesn’t look promising. We’ve lost many of the things that made us great and we have idiots for leaders. Our democracy and political system are broken — and broken badly.
Finally, I will repeat. All civilizations and empires die. Maybe they are born again and, then again, maybe not.
And then came the democrat party greed, avarice, and incompetence media a fact of how to do everything wrong at once.