"American viewers in the 1970s certainly took the seedy court politics on display in the BBC adaptation of Robert Graves's I Claudius as an allegory of Nixon's White House - a parallel which may possibly have been in the mind of the film-makers"......and was definitely in the mind of the writer of this article. No one else drew such a ridiculous parallel.
I watched the series with fascination. There was essentially no parallel to the Nixon admiistration. There were more parallels to the Kennedy administration.
I also bought and read Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire during the Jimmy Carter presidency. I realized that any nation that would elect a moron like that, and let him serve out four years and make foreign and domestic policy, was likely headed for a fall, and I wanted to know how such a collapse would come about.
It is obvious that the Left today represents Decadence--the same kind of Decay that brought about the fall of Rome and all its horrors.
The Clinton administration and the complicity and interference run by the press to all its corruption, the mendacity of the press and our universities and their service to propaganda, the corruption in the press and the Democrat Party--all are unmistakable signs of Decadence (as though the free fall of American cultural standards were not evidence enough).
It is the American Heartland that is vibrant, energetic, optimistic, and ascendant. It has everything to offer.
The Left has nothing to offer but mendacity, asassination of the characters of its opponents, and a ruthless grasp for power--just like Livia, Tiberias, Poppea, Nero, Caligula--the list goes on and on.
The Left is Decadence.
Among Roman contributions don't forget the arch, modern concrete, the modern highway of which many are still in use in Europe and the British Isles.
No doubt your statement is true, but they also represent an amazing type of muddled thinking that is borderline (or perhaps actually) psychotic. The rantings of Howard Dean, Moveon.org, PETA, Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, and others represent a bizarre alternative world the likes of which could not possibly stand if implemented, and in fact don't even stand the simple test of common sense.