What a shame. When you're buried, that IS your final resting place. Even if you go down with a ship, that ship is your grave. That's it, no more movement for you, the only movement you get is if the dirt moves from an earthquake or whatever. I never though that grave robbery would ever be made legal, but it seems that Progressives have made it legal, but only if they do it.
I mean, I can understand minimizing racism. Hell, I'm BEHIND it. But, the removal of some flags and exhumation of an important historical figure isn't going to stop it. That was the then and there, we're in the here and now. We need to find solutions that work on the here an now, not actions that affect the then and there. I regret that MLK was ever shot, if he was still living by this time he'd probably have things to say against this whole shakeup. But, instead of an upstanding, likeable, peaceful Christian man, we have such extreme, violent, corrupt Unchristian men as Sharpton. And the "solutions" are extreme, surly, and corrupt. We should have MLK's coming up with the solutions, but instead we have Malcolm X's.
I'd like to go into the Lenin mausoleum on Red Square and move his & Stalin's body to a car crusher. Let some of the "more progressive" progressives get a taste of their own medicine.
A cultural revolution has been brewing, and it seems that now the percolator's started to pour. I don't predict that we'll go full-Communist for a length of time, but it looks like now the frame's being built. Revisionism has always been in effect in textbooks, but now it's coming to the once-haven of the real world. I think that soon entire catalogues of books and artifacts will be destroyed in progressive fervor and the want of change. When that happens, may whatever benevolent gods that are out there help us.
The way I see it, we have 3 options: Restore the country, Go Communist, or fall like Rome. The first is nearly impossible, the second is seemingly starting, but I predict the third.
tribunesandtriumphs.org lists these as causes of the fall of Rome. From what I know about the Fall, this is accurate:
- Antagonism between the Senate and the Emperor
- Decline in Morals
- Political Corruption and the Praetorian Guard
- Fast expansion of the Empire
- Constant Wars and Heavy Military Spending
- Barbarian Knowledge of Roman Military Tactics
- Failing Economy
- Unemployment of the Working Classes (The Plebs)
- The 'Mob' and the cost of the 'Games'
- Decline in Ethics and Values
- Slave Labor
- Natural Disasters
- Christianity
- Barbarian Invasion
Obama is essentially, with the many waves of executive orders passed, an emperor. The government (Senate) is already antagonistic with him, even some democrats are sick of him. This means number one is true of the American Empire.
Number two can be seen to be true by anybody with morals who watches even a single news program.
The Praetorian Guard is essentially the Roman Emperor's "secret service", and I believe that the Guard assassinated Nero after a vote in the Senate to throw him out. However, there is obvious Political corruption, so number 3 is partly true.
The American Empire may not be expanding the amount of land we have, but the government is constantly expanding the amount of responsibilities and things that the government is accountable for. Therefore, we are a quickly-expanding empire in the monetary sense.
Number 5 is obvious. We are essentially Oceana in 1984, always attacking Eastasia. Notice the name "Eastasia", and consider Christopher Columbus (And/or the Vikings if you count people before him) when reading the name "Oceania".
Barbarians weren't Roman citizens, and were fought off by Romans. The Barbarians could be modern-day ISIL for all intensive purposes. And with ISIL taking everything they want and slowly learning how to act like an Islamic "military", the barbarians are beginning to learn our tactics.
Pick up the paper. The Economy is, compared to the past, failing, and now the Euro is going down in value.
Pick it up again. Unemployment 47%. That number will grow with the failing economy and the recruitment of more democrats.
I don't know much about a Roman Mob but the Games I DO know about. They were essentially, to translate into modern terms, Government-sponsored Football. The "Circuses" half of "Bread and Circuses", a Roman stadium was known as a Circus. The government hasn't gotten so bad as to need to pacify us with circuses yet, but I DO think that some cities throw tax money at new stadiums and the upkeep of teams, so in some locales this may be true.
There has been a decline in ethics and values for a LONG time. It actually looks like it's going down faster every second.
"Slave Labor"'s a bit of an iffy one. You could, on one hand, consider hard jobs like millwork or welding combined with near-minimum wage pay slave labor. Then again, you could consider being attached to college debt all your life and having a lot of your pay taken from you to pay it off until a few years before retirement slave labor. Either way, it's iffy, and whether or not it's true is iffy.
There have been plenty of natural disasters. Look at that part of Orleans that never recovered from Hurricane Katrina. Given a bad enough disaster, that could be cities, regions, states, or even the entire country.
Replace "Christianity" with 'Radical Islam". In Roman times, Christianity was the new, hot religion, taking over the Paganism that had been practiced universally for thousands of years. Now, in America, Islam is the new, hot religion and is taking over the Christianity universally practiced for thousands of years.
Finally, the "Barbarian Invasion" goes back to ISIL and radical Islam. There are already roving gangs of Muslims in portions of London that practice vigilante justice according to Sharia law. With more Muslims coming or being converted here and some of them being inspired to be radical, that could very well happen in our cities and then the barbarians will have invaded.
We might go Communist, we might take back the country. But, my money is on falling like Rome for the reasons above.
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -Abraham Lincoln
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VOTE,
n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country." - Ambrose Bierce,
The Devil's Dictionary
