[headsonpikes]

I meant my query as a teasing jest; thank you for responding.

If there are parallels, then I believe we are in that period between the 'left-wing' Gracchi and Marius, and the 'right-wing' Sulla, the period of Social Wars.

Of course, in the wake of Sulla, careerists overwhelmed the State, leading to Triumvirate, Dictatorship, and Imperator.

Can we, unlike the Romans, preserve Constitutional government?

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Can we, unlike the Romans, preserve Constitutional government?

That is the question, isn't it?

How many ways have you and I and other FReepers pointed out how quickly and viciously our culture has been attacked? Shore up one front and the advancing columns attack our flanks at precisely those points where our fifth columnists (ACLU, trial lawyers, RepublicRat leaders) have cracked open our gates.

Yes, hop, we've quite a task set out before us. I think our troubles begin and end with our having permitted government to totally dissassociate itself from God, thereby providing schemers the opportunity to act as gods to fill The Void they, thusly, deliberately created. Statism on steroids. Big Brother without the humor.

I've suggested it's a humpty dumpty fate; my cousin, LCS, thinks we're outright doomed because we've lost our way. But many things which seem impossible become possible when we remember God only turns His back to us after we've turned our backs to Him.