Like the Roman Empire, how will America fall from power?

Question

A 9 trillion dollar debt?
Endless wars we can't win?
International hatred?

Answer 1

We will overextend ourselves, both militarily and financially and then implode. Just like the Roman Empire. Nations like communist China will be waiting in the wings to step in when we do. We are fighting the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. We are creating enemies when we should be creating friendships. Communist China will never be our friend.

Answer 2

9 trillion? Give me a break. We owe a few trillion and 95% of that is money owed to ourselves. Thats right, didnt you take any business classes in college. The majority of our debt is domestic. China and the rest hold but a fraction. And we have debt with them because they undervalue their currency's
and steal our technology.


Wars we cannot win? I guess you will be voting for Hillary then? But anyway, cowardly voices like yours have been echoed before. We heard it during the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War1, World War2, Desert Storm, and now we are hearing it again. And from the same exact people none the less. You are merely a descendent of those same traitors and cowards. And history will NEVER forgive you.

International hatred? What else is new. Let me point out though. The anti-Americanism that you see today is but a fraction of the AA we saw directly after WW2 and the Cold War. We save the world twice...3 times counting WW1 and yet we experience the most fervent AA during our victory celebrations. Much of it is jealousy. The rest is conjured up by Marxist journalists at the BBC and by europes intelligencia. Ever ready to extoll the worste upon America without considering the 100's of millions of dead their forefathers were responsible for.

America is a beacon of hope for the world! And the American People are the worlds essentail force for good.
-No amount of fashionable anti-Americanism will ever change that. Not even if its domestic!

Rome did not fall because of debt
Rome did not fall because of wars
Rome did not fall because of international hatred.

-It fell because of people like you! And I can assure you, US Americans will never let you do it to us. Please mget on the first plane to Iran or France or China or wherever. Your services are no longer - if they ever were - needed.

-Dont let the door hit you in the *** on the way out.

PUNK!!!

Answer 3

We don't know if that will happen...but it's for certain that the US will be less than a first world country for many US citizens. Rome 'fell' because like all thugocracies the citizens become disenchanted and begin to emotionally drift away. Rome ran up massive debts. The State began to pretend to pay state workers and the workers pretended to work. Money became debased...bribery was rampant....the military was reduced to the state of mercenaries...the state produced only incompetent leaders that were mere puppets for outside power blocks. The law was ignored. Yet the US has one thing that may yet pull itself out of this death spiral...we have a Constitution, and as long as whatever government we have stays well within the parameters of that document there's always a chance. That's the danger of running a gov't that relies on an outside and an inside enemy and a less than total respect for the law as most people understand it. If the Constitution says you have to get a warrant, NOTHING, no matter what other danger is involved allows for disregard. Without the protection of our constitution we're no longer 'citizens'...we're merely another bunch of sheep to be sheared.....no kiddin'!

Answer 4

by swinging to far to the right or the left

The hope is the peculiar genius of a democratic form of government. Over time it tends to balance itself, to correct wild swings that result from crises and reach a stable point. It remains to be seen whether we can do that under the current stresses. Winston Churchill said that democracy is a very poor form of government --- but it's better than any other form we have been able to come up with.

Answer 5

Spreading its resources (military) too far in the financial interests of the few. Allowing unchecked greed and corruption to ruin the economy by giving all the power to large corporations.

Answer 6

The bread lines are what caused the fall of the Roman Empire. The US is headed that way with all the expensive social programs and entitlements that the citizens are demanding from the government.
History will have repeated itself.

Answer 7

I dont know about fall like the Roman Empire but america will generally fall away from importance... The USA is thought of as the most powerful country in the world but that is really china and the other asian countrys.

Answer 8

Just like Rome. It's citizens spoiled and figured that the government should do EVERYTHING for them just because the were Romans. The only difference is that Romans loved conquests for spoils and Americans now despise it AND paying taxes. We're already broke, Things are going to get interesting when the debtors call the note.

Answer 9

No, it would be if HITLARy ever got anywhere near the White House again. Then again, she could return the china, silverware and other things she stole from the White House.

Answer 10

my pick ,electing a weak democrat. And there are many differences between Rome and the US. Try reading an unbiased history book.