Nice topic. I think I’ll read it. I think it all started from within-like everything else.
Marxists have had a lifegoal of tearing down the United States and it’s example of freedom.
The threat has been from a fifth column within our borders born and raised as Red Diaper Doper Babies.
Buttipegg wants to strike Thomas Jefferson down as a historial figure honored in America.
Madhair Halfwit said that the US Constitution isn’t a good model for nations looking to draft such a document.
Bernie Sanders has been pro-despot for 50 years and has been a leading Democrat presidential candidate for the last 2 electios.
Thank you for posting. Davis, as usual, is astute and verbose, but I always welcome his thoughts.
Those who fail to learn from history....
Thanks for posting.
We may prevail by lead poison of higher velocity.
If I can buy them back from that nice fellow at the E Ft Worth car wash.
BDH is always a good read
in brief:
“ Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” (President) John Adams
Read Jeane Dixon’s book. She compared the fall of Rome to the fall of the USA in the ‘70s. She predicted JFK’s assassination. She died in 1997. I read the book in the ‘80s when I was in junior high. It was a fascinating read. She said 0bummer is a prelude to a coming disaster and between the years 2020 and 2037 will be the second coming. Who knows. It was an interesting read back then and much of what this article states, I read by her in ‘80s.
*ping of interest*
bump for later
I am welcoming the final breakdown.
Its the only way we can truly clean house the way that its necessary to. we’ve got 40-50% of the people here that need to go, one way or another.
Many of the founding fathers were very likely familiar with the works of Petronius considering the end result which is our constitution.
VDH is such a gem, and his write ups are so educational.
Obama hired a roomful of anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists to help his campaign.
To help him win his campaign.
Not to help him govern.
To help him convince people to vote for him.
The greedy Democrat politicians use social scientists to help them gain access to the public treasuries so that they can loot them.
Obama and Hillary and their masters want money.
Bathhouse Barry would know all about this...
Most of these articles and theories are BS.
Rome had divided the empire and was using mercenaries (read former enemies) and paying them to not fight. The thing is not how did Rome fall, but how did a city control such a vast empire for centuries, while pagan and immoral.
Since christianity was the official religion almost a hundred years before the fall, it can be posited that Rome was the most moral than at any time before it fell.
Lastly, in 69 AD Rome was still strong and expanding despite the “immorality” especially of Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero. So should we say the more less moral, the stronger the empire?
“Never in the history of civilization had a generation become so wealthy and leisured, so eager to gratify every conceivable appetite—and yet so bored and unhappy.”
We are suffering from the same disease as Rome - AFFLUENZA.
bkmk
Back in the ‘60s a history teacher said that the dole was the beginning of the end for them....
History does not repeat itself. It can resemble itself, but it never repeats.
Rome was not a predominantly Christian nation until its decline started. Some historians ascribe Rome’s decline to Christianity-—pacifism for example drained the ranks of the Roman army.
Slavery became a major issue as well. Small farmers can never compete with slave owners.
I see major differences: Rome was not built on common law, or a Protestant, bottom up religious tradition, or private property with written titles and deeds, or capitalism, the four pillars of American exceptionalism.
Where I do see a danger is the Roman indecision in Germanic immigration. They couldn’t decide if they wanted to let the Germans in and make them citizens, or build walls and keep them out. So they really did neither effectively. Also, it didn’t help that they had a string of truly insane leaders.