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leftwingpatriot said, 9 months ago
The beginning of the American oligarchy.
Adam Nedens(Snoopster) said, 9 months ago
Jimmy crow’s back again
Basqueian said, 9 months ago
It seems to me we have a lot of similarities with the Roman Republic, and the transition to the Roman Empire. How do you folks feel with the likes of Chaney or the Kochs as Nero or Caligula? I don’t see much liklihood of any good coming of that sort of thing.
DylanThomas3.14159 said, 9 months ago
@Basqueian
USA transition from democratic republic to neocon empire = Roman transition from oligarchic republic to Caesarian empire.
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We’ve been down this road before. My position is that the USA transition merges the Roman transition analogy with the FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (in the Latin west). Rome did them one at a time, separated by 500 years. We’re doing both at the same time.
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Folks, wake up! We ain’t got 500 more years. Everything is speeded up and merged together.
DylanThomas3.14159 said, 9 months ago
We’ve already got “cases” like Guard SGT saying, America isn’t a democracy; it’s a republic. He’s never heard of a democratic republic. But facts don’t matter to a “case” like that one.
Leo Autodidact said, 9 months ago
Honestly, if ANYONE’s been acting like an “Emperor” lately it’s her haughtiness “Empress Michelle”
Richard S. Russell said, 9 months ago
The sad thing is, the poor brainwashed stooges out there actually, sincerely believe it IS about fraud.
mrbribery said, 9 months ago
Repub spokesmen do not appear in media til they demonstrate they can say anything with a straight face – Jimmy’s not quite ready for the big time
DylanThomas3.14159 said, 9 months ago
I “actually, sincerely believe it IS about fraud”, among a lot of other things. Like the Dubya-Condoleeza team lying about WMDs in order to drag us into a disastrous war with Iraq (for its oil, which BTW we’re not getting, not in the way the neocons “sincerely believed” at the time).
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I hasten to add, not voter fraud, but other fraud: Like the fraudulent Wall Street financial oppression of the American people.
Radish
said, 9 months ago
If GW Bush was Caligula Jr, Obama is Septimus Severus.
James Lindley
said, 9 months ago
As a poll watcher I saw a voter turned away who was trying to use another person’s name. He was actually turned away, by a Democrat election judge, 3 times. She told him to bring some identification. The reason she knew he was using someone else’s name is the whose name he was trying to use had already voted.
The reason he was trying to use other names to vote? It didn’t have anything to do with party affilliation for him. Instead, he wanted to collect the $5 per person voting straight Democrat ticket that was being paid by the county Democrat party.
sjc14850 said, 9 months ago
@Leo Autodidact
How can I but this politely? Ah… What the hell are you talking about?
luckylouie said, 9 months ago
@DylanThomas3.14159
Historically, republics normally devolve into dictatorships. But think of how privileged we are. How many people get to watch a society collapse in their lifetime? The old Romans were the last ones to see their society collapse, and it took them a couple of centuries
corzak said, 9 months ago
@DylanThomas3.14159
“USA transition merges the Roman transition analogy with the FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (in the Latin west).”
The analogy works well with 4th century AD Empire. Late 300s. Massive military expenditures. Nobility immune from all taxation. Urban middle class wrung dry. Poverty proliferating everywhere.
Nobility at work building defensible country estates. Forerunner of the medieval castle.
corzak said, 9 months ago
@Radish
“If GW Bush was Caligula Jr, Obama is Septimus Severus.”
GW Bush is more akin to a Commodus, I would say.
Obama (in DT’s ‘speeded-up’ version) is more of a Julian the Apostate – not in any religious sense – but in the sense of a reformer, making a valiant effort to turn the tide, but eventually overwhelmed by the relentless momentum of the Decline.