Totally expected outcome from an immoral society. We’re vulnerable to the current pillage and looting from the Barbarians. Watch the scortched earth crowd in action. They party and hand us the bill.
Our only hope will be if the black/Mexican coalition violently breaks apart.
Never forget that the Christian faith—yes, persecuted by the Empire until A.D. 314—ultimately helped preserve the final legacy of the Empire in all of the places and through the individuals you mentioned.
While I wasn’t around in the Roman times, I do know the melding idea in the here and now might not be the same. The America of my youth didn’t have dirty diapers left in parking lot spaces as there are now. The America of my youth didn’t have the foul language, sloppy/stripper look in attire for adults and kids. The America of my youth didn’t have the selfish, me first, give me attitude so previlent today. Maybe all of the above happened with the fall of Rome, but it sure sucks big time now.
They don't, it is and it will be.
...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ...
When elected officials and bureaucracies act outside the law they are simply lawbreakers. When the majority of the people vote in favor of the lawlessness that has greatly manifested itself in the highest offices they have withdrawn their consent to be governed by a constitutional government. By what legitimate basis does the United States of America, as a Constitutional republic, still exist?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
'The People' no longer support that. They voted in support of lawlessness from the highest office on down. They voted against the rule of law. By referendum we now have a banana republic. The USAINO.
American died when the North won the civil war.
It’s pretty much been all downhill since.
Those of us with our noses to the political grindstone would do well to step back and contemplate the fact that a small percentage of our population embraces what we just witnessed on the boob tube.
The American ideal - how it is iterated and practiced in history in a world so full of change - needs a solid voice that undercuts the media on the one hand, and reaches out personally to the masses who do not live in our bubble.If you adhere to what is written in the biblical texts it should come as no surprise to be an alien in the midst of a hostile environment. Count it a blessing!
More than anything, America is an idea, something that became the greatest experiment in the history of mankind.
In just a few generations that idea has been diluted by the multi-cultralists, moral relativists and politically correct notions that permeate virtually every institution in America.
As a result, America is no longer an idea, it has become just another place.
Well, a hundred years ago, the Victorians were in charge. Manners and honor and good taste were esteemed. Then, came WWI. Right or wrong, the Victorians were blamed for the slaughter wrought by machine guns and fast, breech loading cannon and poison gas. WWI brought us the Roaring 20s! It may well be that the excess brought by the liberals in this decade will cause another Roaring 20s! where the laziness and arrogance of the liberals is thrown out.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”- John Adams
Since we are ceasing to be a moral and religious people, then the death of the Constitution will soon follow. Historically speaking, periods of disorder are usually followed by dictatorship or monarchy. That’s probably where this is all headed at some point- back to the default of autocracy. If the beliefs and ideals that underpinned the government established by our Founders disappear, so does the government that stood upon them.
Of course, those d**n social conservatives and their morals don’t matter. /sarc
Europeans are committing cultural suicide. Their cultures and languages will die. Europeans aren't having replacement children.
In two hundred years there won't be enough 'Germans' to keep the language alive. Same for the French, Hungarians etc. In our country liberals don't have replacement children, but conservatives do. That will stop. Conservatives aren't going to want to bring children into this world - this country - either.
Europe will become Arab - and us? I suspect the American culture will become third world... one bad and dangerous neighborhood from coast to coast...
Thanks for the interesting post. It’s always a tonic to get a unique analysis of something, especially this particular subject, which is being hashed over by all and sundry. I am enjoying many people’s grappling with this political eruption of Karakatoa.
It’s a nice dream that we will be remembered when we fall. That someday scholars will look through the annals of history as they struggle to form a new government with new ideals somewhere as they throw off the chains of tyrranical oppression. It’s just a dream though.
The visogoths and the ostrogoths may have sacked Rome, but they wanted in on the wealth as much as anything else. That is why they were more than happy to settle down alongside Roman citizens, ultimately adopt Roman habits, Roman Language, and Roman tradition. When Rome passed on, it remained as a shining dream. That is not our fate.
The international left, including what passes for the Democratic party in the United States hates America. They hate America with a blind burning hatred. The notion that individuals have a right to their own conscience, to speak their mind, and gather with like-minded people is completely anethema to them. The notion that rights are granted by a power higher than the state is something they recoil from like a vampire from a cross.
If the International Left succeeds, and they may yet not, the very next day they will begin to take an eraser to history. The left already speaks of the United States not really having any history compared to the other nations of the world. They tip their hand. Books will be destroyed. The internet will be purged. All reference to us will be destroyed as quickly as possible.
The future they will present will be one in which anyone that strays outside of the state’s very narrowly defined acceptable behavior will simply be cut off from the necessities of life. The state will control food, water, housing, clothing, fuel, and work. The elite need not even have much of a police force. All they will need is a network of public cameras and internet sniffers.
America must destroy the international left or be destroyed by it.
>> But for now my faith is no longer in America continuing as the greatest nation on Earth. I just don’t see it happening.
GFY, Shackleford.