The fall of America will be much worse than the fall of Rome.
1) When Rome fell, there was no organized successor waiting to take over so even as Rome died, Roman culture struggled to live on and eventually began to change (through Germanic influences) into today’s western civilization. Today, we have Islam waiting for us to destroy ourselves and then reboot our culture in their vision.
2) When Rome fell, the Catholic Church was there to preserve civilization during the Dark Ages. Today, our government attempts to insure the marginalization or outright destruction of Christianity as America rots and collapses. Again, Islam is waiting to step in when our government succeeds.
We’d have nothing to fear from Islam if we didn’t allow Muslim immigration. Europe is in much worse shape in that regard.
Yes!
The Fall of America will be far worse than most people can even imagine!
The Fools who have brought it on will get what they deserve! But their children will not deserve what they get. They will curse their parents!
Excellent summation of the your points.
Wish FR had a ‘like’ button!
I wouldn’t necessarily call Islam an “organized successor.” In fact, if the US were to fall apart, the Islamic world would start killing each other almost immediately. Those outside of the Middle East (in Europe, especially) are outnumbered, at least for now, and are more likely to find themselves on the wrong end of a gun. Tolerance only goes so far, when people are starving.
I do agree that there has been a concerted effort to marginalize the religious and cultural foundation that led to America’s greatness, but that foundation is still alive and strong in much of the country. Maybe not on the coasts, but in most places in between. Our resurgence will come from there.
However, I do agree with you conclusion, that a fall of America would be much worse than that of Rome. In Roman times, there was less dependency on a complex economic framework. Most places could carry on, while the world around them crumbled. This is not true, now. If the economy implodes, people will starve. Most urban areas (and their surrounding areas) around the world cannot feed themselves, and cannot sustain the sheer numbers of people they currently have, without an efficient global economy.
Most importantly, if the US falls, the rest of the world falls harder, and more chaotically. Our economy (coupled with our military strength) is the primary the reason the world has been generally stable for 50+ years. Unlike the fall of the Soviet Union, for example, there will be no big world wide economy to tap into. We would be alone, surrounded by a suddenly very “interesting” global environment.