Caesars are the result of a deadlocked political class that presides over a manifestly dying old order. Trump is not a Caesar. He may be the last chance of the Republic prior to the dawning of the age of the dictators. History rarely repeats but it does rhyme, as Man merely changes garb and technical devices and remains the same otherwise. Trump is a symptom of a system breaking down and not the cause of it.
Trump is a symptom of a system breaking down and the not the cause of it.
Excellent synopsis in one short sentence.
Bumper stickers anyone? 🙂
The present administration has initiated a process that carries on the philosophy of control of the populace started by Obama in 2009 and briefly interrupted by President Trump. It ranges from megaliths like total conversion of personal transportation to the fanciful like pizza ovens and charcoal grills. Rome did not fall in 476 AD. It fell in 44 BC.
Interesting analogy. In the fall of ’95, I began my 3rd year of college. Rome’s specific history still remained slightly hazy, yet I had learned of Roman “bread and circuses”. I had entered Air Force ROTC that year; volunteered with other cadets for University football games. Being a close spectator for a major school’s sporting events, I began comparing our welfare state and our national…preoccupation …with sports with Rome. I found it very disturbing: I couldn’t draw much distinction between the United States and the Roman Empire. Too many solid parallels
I could wish schools would teach Latin and Roman history, to learn from it. I could wish we would not flatter Rome’s history by imitating it so distinctly.