If you’re reading this and thinking to yourself, “Gee, that sounds kind of like the U.S. today!” you may be onto something.
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We’re forgetting that the fall of Rome had a bright side: it lead to the dark ages. 1,000 years of no progress with 99% of the public living in complete poverty and no chance of upward mobility.
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Inflation in the Roman Empire occurred when there was too much money chasing too few goods. The inflation rate reached 15,000% between A.D. 200 and 300, after the Great Fire destroyed half of Rome in 64 AD.
The Roman emperors debased their coins with cheaper metals, such as copper, to help pay for the empire’s obligations. This increased the money supply and the government’s spending power, but also resulted in rising prices for goods and services. The quality of the coinage and faith in its value plummeted, and by the end of the 3rd century, any trade that was left was mostly local, using barter methods instead of any meaningful medium of exchange.
Many scholars list the unstoppable hyperinflation as one of the top economic causes of Rome’s fall.
Everybody was struggling to survive. Some say that climate change was the reason the Huns migrated west southwest and pushed out the Germanic Goth tribes, forcing them onto the western Roman Empire. It's the cooling periods, not the warming periods, in which climate change is a factor in mass atrocities.
The zips are already inside the wire.
A short tour of the California State Assembly members can tell the story...
https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers
The only problem for this gang of foreigners and aliens is that the rest of the world will not be convinced. Chairman Xi will not be worried about any resistance from a polyglot gang like this when he decides to bring the renegade Nationalists of Taiwan back into the fold. And he will be right; they will do nothing.
The rest of the world, including Bad Vlad and a host of other malign players, will see it the same way....and act accordingly. As they are actually doing right now.
This is the turning point here and now. A complete alien like Kamala Gopalan Harris in charge of the arsenal of the Fwee World, as she terms it?
Uh, no. That by itself is the greatest threat to not just our “fweedum”, but the entire planet.
We parallel Rome to a “T”.
Slaves became currency. Many Romans calculated their wealth in terms of how many slaves they held.
Rome had a large, disaffected, and surly population. Sound familiar?
The eastern Empire, with some bumps in the road, lasted almost another millennium; Constantinople finally fell to the Turks in 1453.
The thing that really killed the western Empire was "offshoring" their national defense. The more your army is made of up of paid foreign mercenaries, the more tempted they are to simply plunder their employer instead of waiting for a paltry payday.
These invaders have no devotion to America and its traditions. Consider the differences in my visits to two amusement parks last year and the national anthem playing at the park opening:
Silver Dollar City, Branson, Missouri - 95% traditional white American crowd. Everyone turned to face the flag, hand over heart, hats off, many people singing.
Six Flags near San Francisco - 80% of crowd was Hispanic/Muslim/Pakistani/Indian. I was one of only a few to turn and face the flag. People were talking and laughing during the anthem. I obviously stood out because a park employee saw me, shook my hand when I walked through the gate, and said “thank you.” The rest of the day at the park was like being in a foreign country.
Great analogy.
ROME had legions on the Rhine for a reason. When those Legions disappeared Rome was invaded and fell.
Where are OUR legions on the Rio Grande?
Constantinople had legions in the East. When those legions were pushed back Constantinople lasted for a while, then fell to the moslems.
Where are OUR Legions on the Rio Grande?