As noted regarding the internal collapse of the Roman empire, when taxes became burdensome, expansion was required to maintain population growth to support the original areas, farming and manual labor became scorned, and there was no longer a tradition of service either military or political by the upper echelons the rot had become total, and it was just waiting for a small disturbance to drop the whole structure.
We are doing the same glide path and have been for most of my life. Farming, self sufficient people, manual or blue collar labor are flat out despised, military service is considered an option for the lower classes, but not the elites, fly over or red state country is spoken of as if it was a forgiegn enemy, and if it doesn’t be legit the “elites” it isn’t worthy of any attention or effort. This will come to a bitter and difficult fruition eventually if we don’t step back from the edge. Defunding the people who hate us more than our actual enemies, put us below the invaders and economic migrate who drain our coffers and the self serving politicians who are only concerned with their own plunder is a good start, highlighting the hypocrisy in burning swasticars in protest of a movement you don’t support us putting it all out there for everyone to see.
The pattern of the Water Monopoly Empire. Outwardly it appears strong, but internally so corrupt and unstable that a single barbarian hoard can cause the entire edifice to collapse. RE: the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Romans, The Byzantines, Ottoman Turks…
Even if we had a total rebirth, and somehow had a new constitutional convention attended by intelligent and principled patriots who would write a new constitution correcting the fault lines that allowed to corruption to enter and begin the rot, how long would it last before constitution 2 was also brought to the brink of collapse? I’m pretty sure that the founders would have become violently ill at the thought of lifelong congressmen becoming fabulously wealthy and self important and totally divorced from the wishes, needs and physical and moral well being of their constituents. It seems to me that… Read more »