The Eastern Romans remained an empire from 476 to 1453 - not too bad
If our nation continues to turn our back on the ONE true God of creation, indeed it will happen. May God have mercy on us.
Bkmk
America’s founding principles and its Constitution are powerless to save such a depraved and fallen populace. That’s what John Adams meant when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” When “progressives” started sneering and laughing at “Beaver Cleaver white bread 1950s America”, and declaring that “we must not go backward to such times”, the die of our demise was cast. Ladle on top of the ensuing “progressive” self-worship and moral degradation a large serving of outright hatred for America and exalting instead of primitive, tribal subcultures and everything got infinitely worse.
This is most certainly the time that the Bible speaks of when it predicts the rise of a people who “believing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” We’re awash in arrogant “educated” idiots who believe truly insane things, such as that men can become women and vice-versa. They care only about themselves and that selfishness has blinded them to truth and morality.
The only way out of this sorry state is a complete rejection of modern “thinking” and “morals” and a return to truth, logic, common sense, and real morality. But that would take admission that today’s culture is wrong in every way, acknowledgement and repentance for sin, and a national 180 back toward humility and submission to God. Some of us have always been there, and if (when) things get bad enough a few more will join us, but the rest are sadly unlikely to ever admit the depth of their error and depravity. Their pride is more important to them than anything else, and they’ll destroy our country in its name.
Last week Hanson wrote a column comparing conditions to the French Revolution. The point is we should know better than indulging in the self destructive behavior that’s causing our demise, but the only lesson history teaches us is that we never learn any lessons from history.
“the most complex and formidable city fortifications in the world”
Those walls worked for a very long time.
There’s no real comparison between the Byzantines and America as far as our geopolitical situation. The Byzantines were a fragmentary state with an insecure geographical position to begin with. So when they suffered other problems, such as economic or demographic decline, there was nothing to stop them from being overwhelmed.
At least in our case, we are still just about 100% secure from any real invading force. I know everyone talks about the Mexicans as “invaders”, but they have no capacity to harm us militarily, and if they ever decided to act as a staging ground for enemies that could, we could eliminate that threat with the push of a button. And there is still no nation on the planet that could launch a successful naval invasion of the USA. If we collapse, we need to worry about internal conflicts, not an external invasion.
Investment banking is basically what is being talked about here. Money not made by goods or service. Making money from money does not increase the wealth of a nation.