Posted on 06/25/2022 4:08:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Once Commodus, Nero, and Caligula terrorized their people; now it’s the rising generation of young people who were never told “no.”
From Madison reading Cato and Cicero when framing the Constitution to the outsized impact both Rome and America had on the world around them, the United States has long been associated with historical Rome. There are great similarities, and there can be much to learn—and what’s happening now does not reflect well on either historical Rome or America.
When most of us think of the worst emperors in Roman history we think of names like Commodus, Nero, Caligula, and Elagabalus. To a man they were vain, self-centered, bloodthirsty hedonists who took what they wanted and tortured and killed many thousands of Romans and provincials.
All emperors, including the great ones like Augustus, Trajan, and Aurelian had blood on their hands to one degree or another but most tried to maintain or grow the empire. Commodus et al didn’t. Their goal was to satiate their lusts, whether literal lust or gluttony or, sadly, bloodlust. While there were other bad emperors, these four are among the worst.
What makes this relevant today is the fact that all four of these “men” were spoiled, pampered, entitled sadists who were given free rein when they were still essentially children. Commodus was the oldest at 19, while Nero was 17, and both Elagabalus and Caligula were 16.
They were overindulged brats who never faced consequences for their behavior. They were given virtually anything they wanted or, just as often, allowed to take what they wanted with impunity. And at those ripe young ages, and with that upbringing, they were literally given the keys to the kingdom and unleashed on the Empire—and virtually everyone in it suffered as a result.
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I hope we don’t get to add a bloodthirsty tyrant to the list.
Mao’s little red army. Carry always and stay out of areas with this evil idiots if you can.
In ancient Rome, the people did not have the means to eliminate such a person. We The People do.
And the woke destroying corporations and lives are just the female version of this. Rather than lashing out violently like the males, they savage reputations and form social media mobs to take people out.
Self righteous parents refusing to discipline their children so they could exhibit their moral superiority wrought this.
Carry Always, agree. Please just be Damned Sure you are willing and able to employ that Deadly Force without hesitation when necessary.
The Left has ZERO sympathy.
Crazy Scale = 10+
They are indoctrinated. That makes them very dangerous.
I have always said watch out for those folks with “crazy eyes”! AOC is a prime example.
Well, we did at any rate. Only vestiges remain now though in reality.
You just defined Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf. Two 16 year old girls who killed a friend, just because they felt like it.
Yeah, that's when it was called a "Constitutional Republic". But now, the commies want to call it a democracy.. Ruled by the majority. We've all heard it before, two wolves and a lamb setting down to discuss what's for supper..
It ain't going to work. It never did and it never will..
In general, 90% of life is failure. If life's losers get many bites at Eve's apple, they have a chance of finally entering the Garden of Eden.
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Venezuela, China, and N Korea are pure democracies. The left wants the US to be a pure democracy.
One of the things I noticed yesterday was that the ROE protestors tended to be in their 20’s or 30’s.
Friday is a typical workday, so why weren’t these folks working?
Now some of them could have been college students on summer break, but it seems we have a lot of young people who are not working.
But will we do it is the question. We did not do squat when the election of 2020 was stolen. See what happens when they steal the elections of 2022 and 2024.
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