When Caligula declared his horse Incitatus a Roman Senator did that give pause to some proportion of the Roman citizenry. Did they think, “Is this still Rome?”
I have to say that is how I currently feel, “Is this still America?” Just look around at the madness that has enveloped almost every facet of life. I won’t bother naming them again. It’s too repetitive and depressing. You can fill in the blanks. But concisely, if someone like Joe Biden is the President then ask yourself, “Is this Still America?”
A lifelong political grifter whose drug addled son acts as a bag man to shake down foreign governments for kickbacks. A man who can no longer make a coherent speech about the simplest things. A man who has been lying about himself and his motives for decades and someone who can’t keep his hands off of women and even young girls even when the cameras are rolling. If this man is the President of the United States is this still the same country we knew?
The answer is no, it’s not. In the same way that the Roman Empire wasn’t the Roman Republic. It was a gangster state, an oligarchy that used a once free people as conscript troops to rule a continental empire. And that’s where we are now. An oligarchy rules over us and you and I have about as much say over it as some plebian would have telling Caligula to leave his daughter alone. We are a despised and unwelcome people. The only thing we’re needed for is an army. Soon foreign conscripts will be installed in the army and then they can disarm and enslave us at their leisure. We are strangers in our own land and we are being dealt with as quickly as possible.
The only question worth asking at this point is whether it’s already too late to do anything other than leave. And even leaving is questionable. For this empire isn’t continental, it’s global. Sure, Russia and China are on the outside, sort of, and the really backward nations are client states that only supply sweatshops and immigrants. But the places you can go to escape this mess aren’t certain to last. How many places can’t be pressured or bribed to bend the knee. Recently we found out one of those places is Afghanistan. But imagine living there? That’s how far you would have to go to escape the Empire.
The hopeful thing is that the Empire seems to have skipped several stages in the familiar evolution. We seem to be progressing rather quickly from Late Republic to Visigothic sack all in a day. After all Joe Biden isn’t Augustus. He’s not even Tiberius. Dementia Joe is more like a 4th century emperor who has to dodge marauding armies of barbarians while avoiding assassination by his successor. The only question is whether there is enough left in the treasure chamber to pay off the Huns for a few more years.
After that we’ll be looking at a new world. And that will be an exciting and frightening thing. Looking for a stable and safe refuge will be an important and difficult task. Eastern Europe? East Asia? South America? Maybe even a rump America somewhere in the red states? It’s impossible to say.
I guess there’s some consolation in knowing that the traitors who destroyed our country have slit their own throats at the same time. No groundswell of brave volunteers will enlist and save Creepy Uncle Joe when he bungles his way into a war with Iran or North Korea. All he’ll have at his back will be the praetorian guard, or in his case the FBI. But when the going really gets rough they’ll sell him out to the highest bidder. Then Jeff Bezos can be emperor for a few weeks until a real general comes along and makes mincemeat of the Amazon Kid.
So, get ready to enjoy the ride it’s bound to be bumpy but I’m beginning to think it might be more interesting than some assumed. One thing that might be worth considering, when the marauders overrun the country, it might be worthwhile finding out what their terms of service look like. It might give you an opportunity for some payback. Who knows, you could end up as the warlord of Silicon Valley. They definitely wouldn’t be de-platforming you anymore.