Posted on 04/20/2023 8:07:06 AM PDT by Starman417
Donald Trump’s indictment makes one wonder if the members of the Democrat party have ever picked up a history book, walked by one in a library, or accidentally heard an episode of the History of Rome podcast. I doubt it because if they had, they’d know that Rome didn’t transition from a republic to an empire overnight, and they’d be familiar with the modern iteration of the George Santayana adage: Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
By the time Caesar became dictator in 49 BC, the Republic was already gone in everything but name only. The Republic’s collapse had been put in motion 80 years before with the murder of Tiberius Gracchus.
Gracchus was a populist Plebeian tribune, essentially the equivalent of being a member of our House of Representatives. Citizens loved him, and the aristocratic Senate hated him. His assassination points the way to Caesar:
“The oligarchy had introduced violence into the political system with the murder of Tiberius Gracchus and over the years the use of violence became increasingly acceptable as various political disputes in Rome led to more and more bloody discord.”With Gracchus’s death, violence became an increasingly common political weapon in Rome, with Sulla’s purges early in the 1st century BC as the clearest example. Sulla executed 9,000 rival Marian partisan supporters, without regard for age or sex.
Three decades later, Caesar would take control, only to lose his life at the hands of a cabal of his establishment rivals. This widespread political violence only came to an end (temporary as it might be) when his adopted son, Augustus, become emperor. Tellingly, however, Augustus achieved that peace only after executing thousands of his political enemies.
Rome devolved from a republic in which domestic politics were decided mostly by words and relatively objective laws, to a dictatorship where laws were anything but objective, and the emperor could take life and property on a whim.
The late Roman Republic had the equivalent of our “Swamp,” which it called the Senate. While ostensibly there were balancing powers of influence, such as the assemblies, two Consuls (a split executive office with a term of one year) and, occasionally, the appointment of a temporary Dictator, the reality is that the Senate made up of the richest and most powerful citizens, ran the Republic. Even when one of the assemblies or one of the Consuls seemed to be ascendant, it was the senators calling most of the shots through their relationships with the state officials, familial connections to this or that general, and their control of the purse strings.
So, you have a body of rich and powerful citizens having ostensibly limited power through the visible levers of government, but actually exercising real power through the connections, relationships, and shared ideology of the apparatchiks in the bureaucracy, the opinion makers, and those who indoctrinate the youth who always act as the frontline shock troops. Sound familiar?
Things have changed a lot in 2,000 years, but the nature of man…not so much. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. As with most things today, political changes happen faster than they did in the past.
It took 100 years—from Gracchus’s emergence on the Roman stage until Augustus’s ascendance—for Rome to transform from a republic to an empire. It has taken less than 20 years since Barack Obama promised to “fundamentally transform” America for the country to change from a functioning but imperfect republic into a farce of a country characterized by a banana-republic-level tyranny.
With a complicit bureaucracy, Obama used the IRS to target political opponents, the Justice Department to coerce banks into blacklisting businesses he didn’t like, and Obamacare to give the government unprecedented control over Americans’ health decisions while doubling the cost. He unconstitutionally opened the immigration spigot that has now become a torrent.
Within six months of taking office, Obama would set the tone for an administration that would set race relations back 50 years. His “evolution“ on gay marriage would give cover to the spineless Supreme Court to impose that travesty on the country and lay the ground for the fascist LBTQ hellscape America endures today. And finally, he weakened two of the most foundational elements of American society: The military and residential communities.
Obama set in motion a new set of rules in America, and Trump’s indictment, the Soviet-style attack on J6 attendees, and the prosecution of Douglass Mackey combine to demonstrate exactly what those new rules are: Thou shalt not oppose the Democrat party, thou shalt not speak badly of or mock the Democrat party or its minions, thou shalt not push back against the regulatory state, and thou shalt not express traditional American values.
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Our government has been weaponized against us. When do we start our caravans and where the hell are we going to go to find “asylum”?
Two things.
This indictment against Trump actually helped him. He’s pulling numbers, even in Florida are higher than ever.
Second, the republic as we know it ended on J6.
It’s about time. I hate to say it, but when a republic gets to this point, its time to put it down.
That implies that the infecting parasites can then be exterminated with abandon.
Here's a recent example:
This is what the media and government consider a peaceful protest:
This is a felony (six years later, considered 'incitement to burn') - the feds plan to track each and everyone one of these "protesters" down for severe punishment:
Anyone here think Trump will get a fair, unbiased trial in front of a Manhattan jury?
The two nations are at war.
America the People are fighting America the Cabal.
The People are winning massively, but it’s a covert operation so you don’t have an immediate view.
This light is shining worldwide, and all will be revealed.
I sincerely hope every freeper has accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. The Bible prophesies of the end times are becoming fulfilled every day and soon the madness of man’s world will end but the will literally be Hell on earth for those who have not been truly saved.
There is nothing unique about the Trump indictment. Trump’s indictment is just one more step in the Liberal agenda of criminalizing opposition. It didn’t start with Trump and it will continue after Trump is long gone. The Dems have been trying to criminalize Republicans and conservatives since Nixon. They got him and fantasized about throwing Reagan and Bush II in jail too.
No, the end of the Republic happened when SCOTUS abdicated its Constitutional responsibility by refusing to hear the Texas election lawsuit. From that point, everything else was inevitable.
It’s been on a downward spiral for years. Always in the past when the ‘Progressives” crap on the floor, we Conservatives dutifully clean up after them. This time it is different. The Cavalry isn’t coming.
This piece talks about how Augustus had to execute thousands of political enemies after his father was murdered on the Roman Senate steps. Is that where we are?
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” — Thomas Jefferson.
Fixed it for them.
Signaled. Past tense. The Republic is no more. Long live the Republic.
Time to go and get a new one.
I agree. Ended with the murder of a protestor by the DC Stasi. DC is evolving into a protected enclave for the elite.
Its not the end of the Republic. But it is waking g people up which is the whole idea. Everything that is happening is being allowed to happen.
The Republic fell under the guidance of Teddy Roosevelt and Wilson...
Everything since has been the democracy-imposed (mob rule) gradual destruction of all our freedoms & liberties...
As Ronald Reagan prophesied, we are now looking at a thousand years of dark communist tyranny...
To get along, we must go along and:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
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