Posted on 08/18/2018 8:15:07 PM PDT by TBP
I see a lot of parallels between the Byzantine Empire 1025-1071 and ourselves.
They had two major factions, the civil aristocracy (Dems) and the military aristocracy (GOPe). The civil aristocracy got the upper hand after the death of the great emperor Basil II in 1025, and they proceeded to neglect the imperial defenses in favor of ruinous spending in Constantinople and more privileges for themselves.
But the military aristocracy was not without its faults. Both the military and civil aristocracies oppressed the common people, and thus weakened the military fiber of the empire which depended on the small landowners.
Likewise today, we see Dems and GOPe oppressing the middle class for the benefit of the elite.
The good emperors like Basil II followed a policy of protecting the small landowners against the corrupt aristocracy, much like Trump is doing now!
Unfortunately, the Empire was so dependent on who the emperor was, that a bad emperor could also wreak untold damage. Like a US president today!
Bottom line, you need a country where power is decentralized and widely distributed, so that no one man or group can wreck things. Like the US used to be!
Exactly. The rest of us, when we leave a job, we leave access to inside information behind. The average American cannot comprehend how silly Washington is with its ridiculous “COURTESY CLEARANCE” policy.
Nonsense!! It’s threatening our national security that Huma, Hillary, Sally Yates, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, and others are still running around accessing information and using it to their own ends.
1. Revoked because Brennan was a KNOWN COMMUNIST.
2. Revoked because Brennan was a KNOEN MUSLIM CONVERT.
3. Revoked because Brennan aided and abetted in the sale of Uranium to Iran, his Terrorist Ally.
4. Revoked because Brennan was instrumental in the removal Vital Information about Muslim Terrorists and the Muslim Brotherhoods creation because of what he said is Islamophobia.
5 Revoked because Brennan is an Anti-American, Pro-Islamic Terrorist @$$hole!!!!!
Quite a list of communist party types.
I think you can say that about everyone. I can’t think of anyone I agree with 100 percent. i can think of numerous politicians I agree with often enough to vote for them if I lived in their jurisdiction. Rand is one of those.
He’d be one of the people to consider after Trump.
Now, let’s get Eric Brakey from Maine into the Senate. He’ll be part of the Paul-Cruz-Lee wing, and we want more of those.
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