When Rome fell, it sank into the depths of its own decadence and the horrors of the Dark Ages, but no great predatory power seized and subjugated the people who were foolish enough to let this happen.
Not so with the West today! Predators hover over the Western World right now--salivating over the prospects of vanquishing, devouring, and destroying its people.
Meanwhile, Leftists of the West, suffused with decay ripened by prosperity, revel in self-indulgence, including the indulgence of their petty vanities and foolish causes, blind to their own decadence, as their enemies become ever bolder and more assured of success in destroying them.
Middle America is the last great bastion of strength, health, and ascendancy in the Western World--the last great bastion of Western Civilization and the American Dream of universal liberty, justice, and prosperity for all the people of the world. The decadent Left is the greatest threat to all this--and the greatest asset to the enemies of the American Left and Western Civilization.
The Left is decadence. The "Mainstream Newsmedia" is its propaganda machine. The Democrat Party is its political machine.
One of the big differences between the US and Rome, which few people note, is that the US has NEVER had an empire - in the sense of colonies, possessions, etc. Rome had an empire, Spain had an empire, and England had an empire.
But the US had a few little tiny possessions, most of which we got rid of as soon as we could.
Our “empire” was mostly countries who wanted to follow us because they liked our example. They wanted to be considered a friend of the US because that meant that they, too, were in favor of personal liberty, the rule of law, and private property and enterprise.
I was just in Europe and they were all clucking their tongues and saying it was the “end of the US empire.” My question to them: What empire?
It was a voluntary empire, and if people have abandoned it, it is because they have abandoned the ideals, and this does not bode well for the world.
| The Persian Empire adjacent to the Roman Empire was a rival power. The Western World is not a country, so for the rest of this post, Western World will be replaced with United States. Even if the United States declines (it doesn't seem about to flat out collapse at this point in time), it is improbable that China would be reasonably able to literally take over the United States much more than China was reasonably able to take over the Roman Empire. The same with islamofascists. The dominant secular power in the world could merely switch from North America to Asia. China especially would probably 'rule' in much the same way that the United States currently 'rules,' though it could exert more pressure on weaker states. Islamofascists would be driven by their ideology to forcibly convert Americans and others to Islam--however, they are currently not very close to being in a position to make such demands on all of the American people and non-Muslim world. |