Is U.S. going the way of Rome? National discontent stems partly from government's control

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 7/14/07 | Star Parker

[Graymatter]

There’s little comparison, but yes, we’re going the way of Rome. :(

[LibLieSlayer]

YOU people confuse AMERICA with the dim Party... America will endure as long as there are Americans willing to fight and die for her... and as long as “some” keep GOD’s tenants! Those that do not are on their own... free will and such... but they will pay a heavy price for eternity.

LLS

[stockstrader]

Exactly!! I couldn't agree with you more!! If you think the Republican Party just is NOT liberal enough,,,and isn't moving to the LEFT fast enough--there IS a Republican candidate out there for you.

If you want a more authoritarian, bullying, more intrusive, more controlling, all-powerful 'Big Brother' type of government,,,,,

headed by a pro-abortion, pro-amnesty, pro-litigation, gun-grabbing, gay rights crusading, arrogant, narcissistic LIBERAL New York lawyer,,,,

whose personal life is an absolute TRAIN WRECK (almost making Bill Clinton look like a decent family man and loving husband--if that is even possible),,,,

a LIBERAL like Rudy JulieAnnie is JUST THE MAN FOR THE JOB!!!!

[expatguy]

Thats gonna leave a mark

[The_Reader_David]

Maybe it’s time to move the capital to ‘New Washington’ (say, built on the site of Wichita), so when the barbarians overrun (Old) Washington (whether you take that to mean the demonRATs or the Muslims), we can keep our civiliation running another thousand years or so.

(All comparisons with Rome that assume Gibbon’s false telling in which the Roman Empire ‘fell’ when the last Western Augustus was retired to a villa near Naples in 476 are useless, since they are comparisons with a false history.)

[jwh_Denver]

“People feel rattled when they feel a loss of control.”

Might be for some people but not for me as I’ve never thought that I had any kind of control in our government. Now I don’t believe a damn word our government says. I figure they will lie to me every chance they get if it does them well. Good has now become evil and evil good. So “good” (evil) now is prevailing and spreading and is/has corrupting every nook and cranny of our nation. I no longer expect our government to do the right thing at all but rather to increase its own tyranny with more power and more power by decreasing the power of its citizens to serfdom serving their wants not ours. Our nation is under the control of elitists who are insane with power and will scrap and sap this country to increase it.

[TazforPrez]

“I think we’ll be OK if we don’t forget how we got successful and what drives failure. Our success has come from freedom and letting individuals take responsibility for their own lives. But failure comes when we lose the humility required of freedom and turn to prideful notions that we can design government programs that solve life’s problems.”

I fear we are already beyond this point.To many look to the Federal Government for guidance and help in life instead of relying on their own worth.

[OldArmy52]

Yes, Americans feel helpless as (a) Govt ever grows, not matter what Party is in power; (b) elected officials, once elected, turn their backs on those who voted them in; (c) lack of statesmen, only self-absorbed politicians by and large.

[cgbg]

Americans feel helpless as (a) Govt ever grows, not matter what Party is in power; (b) elected officials, once elected, turn their backs on those who voted them in; (c) lack of statesmen, only self-absorbed politicians by and large.

That is _exactly_ what happened with the Roman ruling class.

When the Citizens had to choose between the barbarians and their lying evil corrupt rulers they ultimately decided they just didn't care.

This is how the liberals can destroy America.

[cgbg]

These young people, looking for change, are helping fuel Obamaphoria. In the Times/CBS poll, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the presidential candidate about whom they expressed the most enthusiasm. They surely are an important source of his large number of low-dollar and online contributors.

Of course our other problem is the abject failure of the public education system to train our young people to have values and common sense.

:-)