Is the U.S. doomed to fail?

Question

The government of the United States is based on ancient Greek and Roman governmental structures. Those governments ultimately failed in the end. The more land and power that they ammassed, the more political unrest occurred and the less control they had. Do you think the same will happen to the U.S.? Why or why not?

And P.S., I realize this has nothing to do with religion, but I am familiar with the people who frequent this section, and would like to hear what they have to say.

I'm talking about the government. Not the society, and we're more alike than you might like to think.

Answer 1

I think all governments are ultimately doomed to fall...especially when they become corrupt and cease to fulfill their intended role. But then again, you have to love a country whose founders put their ideas about the role of government so elequently. "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Answer 2

The powerful politicians at the start of this country, had the right idea about settling disagreements. They were allowed to fight duels to the death. I bet if those type of laws were still around! And if future politicians made it to president, we the people would get some fellows that would not fail on us. The future for presidents is doomed, and so are the american people with the jokers that say they can succeed.

Answer 3

Although the Greek and roman governments were based on democratic principals, those governments are no where near similar to ours. Their concepts of democracy only applied to a small, elite portion of the population. Peasants, servants, slaves and most in main stream society were subject to dictatorial rule and brutality. Civil liberties were never considered in Rome or Athens. Nope. The US will be around a long, long time. Why? Well one reason is that we are nothing like the Romans and Greeks.

Answer 4

It has been failing since we gave up the gold to the European central banks back in 1913, elected FDR to convert our republic into a socialist democracy and turned our backs on God.

We are currently under martial law (been there since 1861) and the Constitution is exactly what George Bush is purported to have said it is – "just a goddamn piece of paper."

We are more like Rome today than at any time in our history and in short order we will give up what's left of our sovereignty for a seat on the north American Union.

And as all this happens, we still bellyache about all the stuff that has little importance in our lives.

Answer 5

I'm not a prophet and don't count that someone can tell what the future will bring. What I consider important is that the USA accept the chief blow in the struggle against terrorism. Christian can not acquit terrorism in any way. There is a dire need to stop terrorism at all. I can agree that there are many wrong things in all countries including the USA. This world is not perfect.

Answer 6

The US will fail due to international banking and corporate interests abusing "hypercapitalism" to monopolize more and more land, products, and eventually human needs like food and water. They already have most politicians on both sides of the spectrum in their back pockets, such as GWB and Pelosi.

Eventually they will disassemble the USA piece by piece, even as GWB is disassembling the US Constitution and Bill of Rights with his "executive orders".

It is GWB quoted as saying that the US Constitution is just "a Goddammed piece of paper"

Answer 7

Democracy breeds nothing but greed and selfishness: good for business but bad for social equality and justice.

Propaganda is -essential- to the survival of a democracy.

Without Propaganda you cannot identify a Scapegoat upon whom to divert the endless dissatisfaction of the masses (as they are poor but have been promised they will be rich one day).

I'm not currently advocating any form of government, as I find faults with all of them. Humans lording it over humans has never been a pretty picture, and there are very few ways to coerce your fellow man to see things your way beyond brute force.

It is a dilemma we have yet to solve.

Answer 8

yes. the US is doomed to fail. It is only a matter of time. We are not one of the powers that will be standing at the end. We will fall slowly I think, but we will fall. I think we may even all be brainwashed enough and self absorbed enough to not even know we have fallen, but we will fall.

Answer 9

Yep. I see us welcoming Sharia with open arms by 2030, the way things are going. I'll be one old assed renegade.

Answer 10

Yes.