scary similarities?? Do you think America will follow ROme!?

Question

The United States empire is based almost exactly the same as the Roman Empire!!
The Roman Empire had 2 consuls (president) the senators (house and senate) and an assembly of regular people!!
The US just combined the senate and the assembly (representatives) and made a judicial branch

There were 6 problems that the Roman republic couldn't solve!! Bad governors, Rewarding Italian allies, Latifundia (out of work farmers), too many slaves, rise of the equites(rich got richer the poor got poorer) and the too powerful senate!! The reason they ouldn't solve these problems was because of gridlock!!
In America today, we haven't done much on any of the major problems like globalwarming because of this same gridlock!! Nobody agrees with each other so nothing happens...

In the end... Rome turned into an absolute monarchy!! THere were some good emperors and many bad emperors.
Also the Ten reason s that led to the downfall of ROme are similar with todays problems!! like inflation

and inflation and taxes and military spending and corruption and decline in moral values and urban decay

Answer 1

Yes, the US could fall as the Roman Empire fell. Since it's inception, the US has been an oligarchy, not a democracy. The rule of elites, or the pawns of the elite, begins with Washington and Jefferson and continues through Clinton and Bush. The US will not become a monarchy or dictatorship, but it doesn't need to. The power structure is secure from being attacked or overturned without any need for a monarch.

More importantly, the US is facing the same problems faced by the Roman Empire. While Visigoths and other barbarian tribes eventually became dominant over the roman empire, the US is currently losing the same battle with tribalism. Muliticulturalists have decreed that western/modern ideas must make way for tribal beliefs, and we see the effect as our inner cities are falling into anarchy and decay.

The barbarians never outnumbered the citizens of Rome within the empire. A majority is not required to overthrow or destroy a culture. A strong, undisciplined minority can produce the same effect. The institutions of American democracy are not respected by many libs and minorities. The defacto overthrow of those institutions could occur within the next century, leaving anarchy it their stead.

Answer 2

Not to mention we're spread out too thin all over the world (or at least, our military and interests are). Some would call us an empire, that's for sure.

If we invade Iran, then yes. I think we'll die a slow, painful death if we do something that stupid, as morbid as that sounds. Heck, it might already be happening with Iraq. However, I think it would be mostly internal, because no one in their right mind would attack a country with 3,000 nuclear weapons at their disposal. So the impovershed or displeased riffraff would rise up and overthrow the government. Perhaps old rivalries between groups would reassert themselves, and there would be anarchy.

As for the person above me... I have no idea what he means about multiculturalists insisting that we accept "tribalism." We have popular culture here in America, not tribal culture. A general world trend is that tribal/traditional culture tends to crumble when faced with popular culture.

Answer 3

Very few things in this world remain static and the ebb and flow of power amongst countries and empires is one example of this. As our society has grown more and more self-absorbed and spoiled, entitlement focused, overly litigious, and refuses to spend the time/energy necessary to understand the key issues of the day and hold our leaders responsible for their positions, our power is diminishing just as Rome's did. Further hastening this decline is our hypocrisy and arrogance and our government's inability to control its reckless spending.

China is the new rising super power and it will be dominant within the next 1-2 decades.

Answer 4

The USA has no more than 20 years left as most powerful nation. All the evidence of terminal decay is evident.
Private opulence and public squalor.
India, China and Russia will all be more powerful by the middle of this century.

Answer 5

There are some general signs right now indicating something is taking place. I refer to the rise of China and other near Eastern countries. Power (esp. financial) is moving into their area. We are borrowed to death which I doubt will ever be paid off. They, near East, are not in debt. This factor alone will along with our spread-outness geographically ( esp. militarily) .

Answer 6

No doubt about it but the USA will be more like Nazi Germany before it falls