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We Are Witnessing What Happens When Unrestrained Youth Gets Power
American Thinker ^ | 25 Jun, 2022 | Vince Coyner

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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To: JoJo354

I have always said watch out for those folks with “crazy eyes”! AOC is a prime example.

Adam Schiff is another.


21 posted on 06/25/2022 5:22:15 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: wrench

You forgot the most important part of the “democracy” of the stated nations...”imposed democracy”. Seeing it in These United States as we post. A new mantra could be “remember what happened to marie” to remind the progressive radicalists that the road they are hoeing can easily go the other way. “All roads go both ways but both ways aren’t always the right way” LStar


22 posted on 06/25/2022 5:22:29 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" LStar)
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To: hopespringseternal

Re: “the female version of this”

Hm?....A good point that I hadn’t considered before.


23 posted on 06/25/2022 5:23:08 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Working! Why work. Those in the DC area are the off springs of over paid elitists who “work” in DC. Pampered mostly lefty dems.


24 posted on 06/25/2022 5:25:02 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: telescope115

Oh yeah, you got him pegged!


25 posted on 06/25/2022 5:28:37 AM PDT by JoJo354 (Freedom first. MAGA forever!)
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To: hopespringseternal

Analogy: the chicken coop.


26 posted on 06/25/2022 5:33:54 AM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: sport

Dittos, the authors conclusion that “we have the ballot box” is sadly mistaken.


27 posted on 06/25/2022 5:36:45 AM PDT by MrKatykelly
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To: MtnClimber

I always find it facinating that you never add a comment to your original post but then are the first to comment and it is comment number 2. Just an observation.


28 posted on 06/25/2022 5:40:26 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: MtnClimber

Just remember that when the woke, entitled youth think they
have the power to overturn law you get the Nika Riots of
532 AD.
They raged through Constantiople burning and murdering until
the Emperor released his Generals on the mob, occupying the
hippodrome, some 30,000 rioters were killed.


29 posted on 06/25/2022 5:59:48 AM PDT by VicVanleeuwenhoek
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To: MtnClimber

30 posted on 06/25/2022 6:02:46 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: MtnClimber

“Once Commodus, Nero, and Caligula terrorized their people; now it’s the rising generation of young people who were never told “no.””

A while ago I declared dementia Joe as “American Nero”. It would make a great book title. Joe started the fire and watches it burn.


31 posted on 06/25/2022 6:54:16 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
-- In ancient Rome, the people did not have the means to eliminate such a person. --

Praetorian guard and the Senate did their share of assassination. Eventually the people, mostly barbarians by then, took over via force of violence.

It'll happen here, too.

32 posted on 06/25/2022 6:58:48 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: MrKatykelly

Even if the elections were accurate, universal suffrage is a suicide pact.


33 posted on 06/25/2022 7:02:39 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: MrKatykelly
the authors conclusion that “we have the ballot box” is sadly mistaken.

We still have the shoe box, first used by our distant ancestors getting out of Africa, and ever popular today. It's a big world out there, made bigger by HVAC. Everyone is wanted somewhere. For most, that is a better option than the ammo box.

34 posted on 06/25/2022 9:23:43 AM PDT by Reeses
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