This is sort of like the mass infiltration of the Roman Empire by the Goths and other tribes. Much of this was nonviolent. They just took advantage of Rome’s unwillingness or inability to protect the Empire’s borders. Immigration or invasion? Whatever you call it, it’s the same result.
"This is sort of like the mass infiltration of the Roman Empire by the Goths and other tribes. Much of this was nonviolent. They just took advantage of Rome’s unwillingness or inability to protect the Empire’s borders. Immigration or invasion? Whatever you call it, it’s the same result."
Indeed. In many cases they were merely "doing the jobs that the [spoiled and weary] Romans would no longer do" like serving in the Roman Armies and building infrastructure. I'd bet with a little research we would find they also picked lettuce olives.
This phenomenon is merely the inevitable conclusion of Barbarians At The Gate. The spoiled, lazy and weary citizens of a given timeframe will abdicate their duty of eternal vigilance to some quick, self-serving issue of the day. This philosophy is literally the defining characteristic of the modern Liberal, a suicidal and masochistic collection of cancer cells that inevitably kills its host.
Barbarians at the gate: 1600 years ago today – the day it all went wrong for Rome
We may even have beaten the Romans and Greeks. With the help of (D)emocratic-Socialist neo-Communist Liberals we have managed to time-compress well over a thousand years of Greco-Roman experimentation into less than three centuries, but really into less than one. We have already had our Caligula ( Clinton ) and Nero ( Obama ) and are reveling in homosexual pervertedness on TV and elsewhere around the clock. Now they want to open the gates and dissolve the "empire" once and for all.
To ba a modern "Liberal" means to intentionally ignore all history and to ensure it repeats. Whether it is the fall of Rome America, or to ensure another holocaust even while survivors of the previous one still walk God's green Earth, the enemy within says: "yes we can".