Fall of American Empire
The Burning Platform has published a hard-hitting article, Fall of American Empire and Descent into a New Dark Ages, 31 May 2023. The article is not optimistic about America's future. It draws parallels between the fall of the Roman Empire and the current state of America and American politics. It references cycles of history as described in the book The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny, by Strauss and Howe, 1997.
Yet this article is an important read because it doesn't pull any punches. It explains how we have gotten to where we are, and what the likely next steps may be in America's devolution. Selected excerpts follow:
"The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long... and the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians." - Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 38 "General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West"
... The Roman Empire did not fall on a specific day due to a specific cause. It collapsed in stages over hundreds of years due to numerous reasons, each triggering events which compounded upon each other and ultimately led to the final collapse...
Walker [David Walker, then Comptroller General of the U.S., in 2007] said, "The US government is on a "burning platform" of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon."...
He cited three reasons for the fall of the Roman Republic that resonated in 2007 regarding the American Empire (formerly a republic):
- There has been a decline in moral values and political civility at home. Examples include the devaluation of life, greater self-centerdness by individuals and increased partisanship and ideological divides in Congress.
- We now have an overextended military around the world. While the US military is unmatched as to its capabilities, it is under stress and stretched very thin.
- There is fiscal irresponsibility by the central government. Our debt ratios are set to increase dramatically when the baby boomers retire...
It's almost humorous Walker was issuing these dire warnings when the 2007 annual deficit was $160 billion. At our current rate of debt accumulation, it takes only one month to reach $160 billion...
Walker's first point about the decline in moral values and political incivility has reached civil war instigating levels of degradation, deviancy, and treasonous political activity. Not in Walker's wildest dreams did he envision the grooming and trafficking of children, drag queen story hour for toddlers... Destroying our culture, promoting abnormality and sloth... and persecuting normal white Americans who dissent, is actively promoted, and funded by Soros, Gates, and the rest of the Davos - WEF globalist psychopaths....
... while the true globalist agenda of one world order, where the peasants will own nothing and be happy, is rolled out at an accelerated pace...
To put a Roman Empire slant on it, what has been wrought by Clinton, Obama, Comey, Wray, Brennan, Clapper, Pelosi, and their gaggle of treasonous co-conspirators since 2016 has marked our current day crossing of the Rubicon. Politics has always been a dirty game, but the machinations to bring down a duly elected sitting president, which continue to this day under the direction of Biden's handlers, is reminiscent of the plots, coups, and murders as the Roman empire descended into corruption, madness, and deviant behavior...
We are a corporate fascist oligarchy, ruled by the few, for the few...
Edward Gibbon's discernment that the number one cause for the ruin of Rome was "The injuries of time and nature", is more profound than it might seem...