Posted on 10/01/2021 9:15:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It can never happen here!!!
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Not even Caligula was this bad!
No! Until it does.
Yep
> It can never happen here!!! <
That’s a key comment! I once read an article about the fall of the Roman Empire. The author mentioned all the usual reasons for the collapse. But then he said the main reason was that the Romans simply couldn’t believe that they could ever fall.
Rome was eternal! So there was no need for any reforms. Rome falling? It can’t happen! Inconceivable! So party on!
Just like the USA in 2021.
Didn’t someone appoint an Ass as a Senator, in the US we elected several Asses for years now, and the end is not yet.
, if she had occasionally closed her gates to let assimilation catch up with infiltration
not that I’m any expert on Rome, but I did read once that so wide an empire, without the bond of unity and nationalism instilling a feeling as part of one nation, instead of many parts just loosely associated with one nation and not feeling particularly obliged to defend any part not their own, was unsustainable. Same today as the islands feel towards America, half foot in the water and half out.
Just heard Kirk Cameron a few weeks ago about bringing Heaven to Earth and America lasting for another 1,000 years.
The audience was very pleased and applauded.
I’m skeptical, to say the least.
I think the church age is wrapping up and the 7-year Tribulation is coming.
But that’s just me...
“I am Spartacus!” ~ Senator Cory A. Booker
Rome had only one horse as a Senator.
We have dozens of Horse’s Asses.
One of the curious parts of American history, if you go back to the 1700s and educational standards...the study of Rome was a standard topic for the self-taught American intellectuals. You can go all the way back to the late 1800s and still see a great deal of discussion over the history and battles.
The last fifty years? Almost nothing. If you open up a high school world history book....Rome rarely gets more than two to three pages of mention.
And our politicians aren’t even drinking wine flavored with sugar of lead.
They’re crazy and incompetent all on their own.
Who’s gonna be the bad guy?
Pretty close to modern western civilization and America today. There are other examples of why Rome fell further up that corresponds with our greedy immoral leaders today.
THE main difference is that America is not a true imperialistic nation looking to conquer. However, our power-crazed politicians think they can build new democracies out of age old tribal savages. Still, the biggest similarity with Rome is letting all cultures in and then wondering why the barbarians we let in the gate do not assimilate.
I spent 11 yrs Navy to defend the free world. Countless other have done SO much more and paid an awful price. I sometimes ask myself why did I and others bother? Here we are today with totalitarians (barbarians) inside the gate.
“ Rome was no longer Rome.”
And America is no longer America.
The situations aren’t identical but yes. There are some very important commonalities — and we should take heed — as our nation’s status is quite precarious
Rome didn’t follow God.
Big difference obstructed from view by low IQ.
One aspect not discussed above was the similarity of contemporary America and the Roman Empire in terms of widespread sexual degeneracy.
I had heard of this warning decades ago.
Even then people saw the very beginnings of our collapse and warned that the US was on the same path.
They were laughed off, of course.
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