[PGR88]

Rather, the Republic has fallen and the Empire has taken its place.

We are ruled by a Praetorian Guard in DC. The emperor is an old fool and puppet installed by them. They print money for bread and circuses. The borders of the nation don’t matter, but they will fight for the borders of the empire, in Ukraine, Iraq, Somalia, etc...

[LouAvul]

I see it more along the lines of Stalin and his clerks and accountants. Stalin died and the clerks and accountants knew what was really going on and where the assets were hidden.

They took over and became the Politburo.

[aquila48]

It’s eerie to see history repeating itself. The “deep state”, aka the “swamp” aka the praetorians, is real and not new. ... From Wikipedia

*In the year 27 BC, after Rome’s transition from republic to empire, the first Emperor of Rome, Caesar Augustus, designated the Praetorians as his personal security escort. For three centuries, the guards of the Roman emperor were also known for their palace intrigues, by which influence upon imperial politics the Praetorians could overthrow an emperor, and then proclaim his successor as the new Caesar of Rome. In AD 312, Constantine the Great disbanded the cohortes praetoriae and destroyed their barracks at the Castra Praetoria.[1]”

We need a Constantine, ASAP. Is Trump him?