We live in a culture with a dangerous new social meme:
innocent until proven Republican
We need to awaken to the gravity of the ideological perversions that are taking hold in our society. Justice is being corrupted into an ideological litmus test.
The wealthy have learned the new lesson and now the super rich are increasingly “liberal” because they know it insulates them from prosecution in all abuses.
The politics at the top in Washington are very nearly like those of Imperial Rome, during the years of Julius Caesar, who was a Roman military and political leader.
It was a time of transformation from the Roman Republic to the Imperium. The Senate was supposed to be the highest authority, but they gave over their governing power to an unofficial triumvirate led by Julius Caesar, with Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, which dominated Roman politics for several years. The Senate tried to overthrow this usurpation of their leadership position, but eventually, Caesar ruled alone, after the resolution of a civil war in 49 BC. Once having consolidated his power, Caesar declared himself “Dictator in Perpetuity”, until he had the most unfortunate meeting with Brutus, who along with a group of other Senators, assassinated the dictator on the Ides of March (March 15) in 44 BC.
In an example of excessive remorse, Caesar was declared a diety, and the form of imperial government became the standard for Rome, and most of the civilized world for the next couple of thousand years.
Republican Rome was never re-established. It was to be ruled by Caesars until its eventual collapse and the rise of numerous minor kingdoms, some of which had their own local empires, but nothing ever as grand or dominant as Rome, until the rise of the Spanish and British Empires some ten or twelve centuries later. And they never dominated their immediate neighbors, at least not for extended periods of time.