[DouglasKC]

Kinda sounds like Ancient Rome doesn’t it?

Yup. And it's going to lead to the same thing.

[Leisler]

Thing is before big government, we had families that progressed from thrift to wealth and then decadence naturally, and they only took themselves down and in a economic Darwin type way, made room for other thrifty moral people to take their place.

No the government is taking us all down. So, it is like Rome.

And also like Rome, yeomen tradesmen like myself are seeing the government as the enemy, and the two parties as but competing hyenas that feed of the flesh of the productive so that they and theirs can get fat.

In short.

The US Government is evil and my enemy.

[steve-b]

Kinda sounds like Ancient Rome doesn't it?
Yup. And it's going to lead to the same thing.

A country that rules a large chunk of the world for six hundred years? Hokay.