[Sudetenland]

TRue, but it was prescient in it's statement and it was the fall of the Republic to a series of dictatorial emperors to which he was referring and though the empire continued, it was never the sort of republic it had been.

I was being somewhat cavalier, but it was a combination of a loss of interest in self-government/pre-occupation with hand-outs and the huge influx of non-citizens to do the work that the citizens wouldn't do...sort of sounds familiar doesn't it.

I am once more reminded of how happy I am that I have no children to worry about. I greatly fear for the future of the progeny of those who have.

America is probably lost forever. How do you get a populace addicted to governmental largess to renounce their addiction? Certainly not through education, that is already destroyed and become indoctrination into statism.

[Monterrosa-24]

“...How do you get a populace addicted to governmental largess to renounce their addiction? Certainly not through education, that is already destroyed and become indoctrination into statism...”

If we had even 60 percent of the productive types as ethical, strong, wise, and patriotic we would have a chance but it is very disheartening to see a Yankee state like Iowa which is still at least 92 percent White go heavy for a man like Obama. So many hardworking Whites have gone completely clueless, have no sense of self, and of course in some areas there are huge numbers of Whites on welfare.

The hillbillies of a place like Hancock County, Tennessee were poor but proud and independent in the old days. Today they have satellite dishes, food stamps, and are knowledgeable of all things Hollywood.

[griswold3]

“Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. … Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the ‘new, wonderful good society’ which shall now be Rome’s, interpreted to mean ‘more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.’” –Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)