The Uinted States today in 2016 is the equivalent of Rome in either 185 AD or Rome in 310 AD! For those history buffs among us you will know the significance of those dates. For those that don’t please research it. In either case the U.S. will NOT last as long as Rome did after either of those dates. The irony is of course that whether there is a U.S. here or not....things for the average “American” really won’t change much. In fact things might actually get better....
We need to be as adroit as Byzantium, who through clever politics lasted 1,000 years.
The invention of the Commode perhaps?
Lucius Aurelius Commodus
(AD 161 - AD 192)
Looks like life was pretty good for him ...
“With Perennis in charge of running the empire, Commodus’ life became one long party. Entertaining a harem of, so it is said, 300 girls and women and 300 boys, some of which might have been kidnapped, he indulged in lengthy orgies and revelled in decadent luxuries.”