Posted on 10/17/2016 6:43:45 AM PDT by mom4melody
Every so often in history a man comes along who overthrows a corrupt elite and resets the political establishment. We live in such a time. In our time that man is Donald Trump.
Establishment politicians, media and academics are now all united against Trump’s presidency. They are also all revealed as being more interested in protecting their power and their reputations than in principles, truth or serving the people. The rage of the elites against Trump is so obvious it’s shocking. They know that if Trump becomes president they face exposure. What the public has already seen through the leaked emails and videos has been enough to make many of us sick. What else will be exposed to the public should Trump become president?
Julius Caesar played the same role in Roman history two thousand years ago. The Roman Republic was dying, falling apart under the mismanagement and cronyism of a corrupt ruling class. Caesar was opposed by all of them, yet by sheer talent, determination and good fortune was able to make Rome great again. He brought Rome’s enemies to heel, curbed the excesses of the greedy establishment and restored the real economy so everyday Romans could prosper again.
Trump’s similarities to Caesar are striking. Both Trump and Caesar are expert deal-makers. Like Trump, Caesar was also a man of constant action, clear-headed and politically decisive. He excelled at turning defeated foes into firm friends. Both are masters at communicating directly with the people. Trump uses Twitter to distribute his message constantly to people across America. In the same way, Caesar was famous for regularly sending pamphlets back to Rome to be read directly to the people of the city. In much the same way as Trump, the Roman people saw Caesar as their champion against their oppressors.
Like Trump, Caesar made his name as the quintessential Roman winner. In Rome, that meant having military victories and conquering new lands for the empire. At this, Caesar was unparalleled. In America today, our heroes are entrepreneurs and celebrities. Trump has managed to make himself the king of both.
Like Julius Caesar, Trump has exploded onto the stage of history at a time of economic turmoil, civil unrest, falling moral standards and a sense of widespread decline. There is a yawning gap between the official version of reality put forward by the establishment media and people’s everyday experiences. Americans know that things have been going wrong now for a very long time, and that their rulers are not representing their interests. Trump did not create these conditions. Instead he is the man of the hour, riding a wave of popular revolt perhaps to the White House itself.
Events which were unthinkable ten years ago are today everyday headlines that barely raise an eyebrow. Many of us can feel that there is a madness rising up in the world. After eight years of a supposedly post-racial president, there is today the risk of a race war breaking out in America. Despite the growing threat of Islamic terrorism, Hillary Clinton has indicated that she will greatly increase Muslim immigration from Middle Eastern war zones should she become president. Her performance during the second presidential debate also revealed clearly that her strategy for winning the White House involves creating a dangerous war climate against nuclear-armed Russia.
All of these frightening developments have been driven by a Democratic party elite which is being revealed as completely lawless. The ongoing revelations by WikiLeaks of insider emails and other leaks are showing us an inner circle around the Clintons which is corrupt, dishonest and ruthless. What is most disturbing is that this crooked culture seems to have its tentacles across the entire American ruling establishment.
The current political class has encouraged divisions inside and outside America to further their own ends. Rather than demonstrating true leadership and seeking to unify and pacify the nation and the world, today’s ruling elite have sought to divide, conquer and plunder instead.
Like Caesar, Trump has become a lightning rod for the growing discontent of the American people. Romans during the Late Republic were also fed up with a deadbeat economy which relied upon the indebtedness of the many to fund the luxuries of the few. Caesar’s solution was to grant partial amnesty on all debts to revitalize the economy by freeing up capital for enterprise. It was this move against the interests of the bankers which, more than any other, probably led to his assassination.
Caesar’s assassins were the oligarchs and politicians themselves. These men belonged to an exclusive club which was accustomed to running the government for their own benefit. Like in America, families had formed political understandings to guarantee turn-taking and political dynasties. Caesar instead brought with him talented outsiders, and preferred merit to privilege when deciding promotions. This enraged his fellow aristocrats.
The root of Caesar’s appeal to everyday Romans was his success at overturning the corrupt political system and restoring the fortunes of the Roman middle class. Tired of seeing that the scales were always tipped against them, the common people of the empire saw in Caesar a hero who could restore virtue and decency to public life. Caesar’s enemies attacked him viciously for egoism and ruthless ambition. His opponents circulated rumors about his sexual behavior, and accused him of being under the influence of foreign powers. Whether any of this was true or not about Caesar, it was certainly true about them.
Many Americans can sense that this presidential election is a crucial turning point in American history. Already it has become a political circus like nothing we have seen before. Like Caesar, Trump tells us constantly that his desire is to restore America to its former greatness. This appeal to a higher level of principle is powerful, and the opponents of Trump trying to destroy him should take heed. Caesar overcame all his foes and became master of Rome; in the end, they had to murder him. Even then Caesar’s legacy lived on, and the force for change which Caesar unleashed in the hearts of men proved unstoppable. It was Caesar’s vision, not his opponents’, which finally triumphed.
I’m not sure that’s good, look what happened to Caesar.
I’ve talked about this since August 2015. Comparing Trump to Julius Caesar.
When coming down that escalator was ‘crossing the Rubicon’ and into the dystopian media driven politics.
But Caesar was THE BAD GUY. He was the law breaker who seized control of a floundering republic and essentially killed it.
The elites are so arrogant they don’t think they’ll ever be stopped by anyone. I think the pundits are gonna be shocked at the wide coalition of voters that will be voting for Trump.
But Caesar was THE BAD GUY. He was the law breaker who seized control of a floundering republic and essentially killed it.
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HELLOOOOOO!!! People? If Trump=Caesar, we are totally screwed.
I would rather Trump=Andrew Jackson. Or even Trump=Lincoln.
Best of all Trump=Reagan.
But not Caesar!
Look what happened to the republic. I think the comparison is very apt, and that's what worries me. While Trump is clearly preferable to the criminal Clintons, I am not confident about his commitment to constitutional principles. He gets my vote because Hillary must be stopped, but I am not joyful about it.
As they say, the winner writes the history books.
A simple, powerful comparison between Julius and Donald. Trump will be the greatest president since Washington.
“They know that if Trump becomes president they face exposure...”
They are going to get a lot more than that. The globalist have been digging their own graves. It’s now just a matter of time before they get thrown into it.
You will know who they are when you see them suddenly fleeing the USA. I am talking to you Baldwin, Di Nero, Streisand, Olbergirl, Mathews etc..
General George S. Patton, of World War II fame, was just such an impetuous crusader. Impatient of waiting for Lord Montgomery, when the opportunity to cross the Rhine came, Patton sent all the available forces he could muster to pour through that breach into the still Nazi-controlled part of Germany, and set out not just for Berlin, but with the ultimate goal of reaching Moscow. HUGE panic in the Roosevelt war room in Washington, screaming STOP STOP STOP!!!
Reluctantly, Patton listened to the voices on the radio, and obeyed, withdrawing to behind the Rhine until Montgomery could quit fumbling around. Next time, swore Patton, after I cross the Rhine I am just going to smash all the radios and head right into the Russian advance. The plan was to accept the surrender of the Wehrmacht, but stockpile their surrendered weapons, then using the captured soldiers, armed and equipped, and now much better supplied, to be the spear thrust against the advancing Russians.
But Eisenhower pretty much sidelined Patton for the remainder of the war, and in the aftermath, in one of those strokes of history, Patton was a passenger in a staff car that was struck by a US Army supply truck, and died as a result of the injuries. Had he gotten back to the US, he would have blown apart the whole political landscape in the postwar era, predating Joe McCarthy by many years.
There were many Caesars. Julius was the best of all of them. He purged the nation of incestuous corruption and restored economic and political stability.
We have had several generals with Julius Casear self images. More to the point the Pattons and MacArthurs had a vision of geopolitical reality unshared by their political nemesis. They were restrained from their better judgement by their principled commitment to command perquisites.
” I made the comparison of HRC to Emperor Diocletian”
It’s more fun to compare HRC to Caligula.
Et tu Ryan?
And the LSM and other commie agencies are trying to breed a host of Brutus’....
Interestng comments.
Caesar was indeed the bad guy. He consolidated power into Rome and began the transformation of the Empire from republic to monarchy, a job finished by his succesor, Augustus Caesar.
Brutus and the other Senators who killed Julius Caesar were the good guys.
"How swiftly Caesar had surmounted the icy Alps and in his mind conceived immense upheavals, coming war. When he reached the water of the Little Rubicon, clearly to the leader through the murky night appeared a mighty image of his country in distress, grief in her face, her white hair streaming from her tower-crowned head, with tresses torn and shoulders bare she stood before him, and sighing said:
'Where further do you march? Where do you take my standards, warriors? If lawfully you come, if as citizens, this far only is allowed.'
Then trembling struck the leader's limbs; his hair grew stiff and weakness checked his progress, holding his feet at the river's edge. At last he speaks:
'O Thunderer, surveying great Rome's walls from the Tarpeian Rock --
'O Phrygian house gods of Iulus, clan and mysteries of Quirinus who was carried off to heaven --
'O Jupiter of Latium, seated in lofty Alba and hearths of Vesta --
'O Rome, equal to the highest deity, favor my plans.
Not with impious weapons do I pursue you. Here am I, Caesar, conqueror of land and sea, your own soldier, everywhere, now, too, if I am permitted. The man who makes me your enemy -- it is he who be the guilty one.'
Then he broke the barriers of war and through the swollen river swiftly took his standards. And Caesar crossed the flood and reached the opposite bank. From Hesperia's forbidden fields he took his stand and said:
'Here I abandon peace and desecrated law.
Fortune, it is you I follow.
Farewell to treaties.
From now on war is our judge.'"
Hail, Caesar: We who are about to die salute you.
Donald Trump is America’s Winston Churchill.
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