The Constitution (and the Regime based on it) is dying. And the worse news: we’re the weak link in the Republic. Like in the last days of the Roman Republic, we find the burden of self-government too heavy. Then as now natura abhorret a vacuo.No throne remains empty for long, and we already see powerful elites jousting for supreme power. Already they have configured the government, and especially the tax code (federal, state, local), to concentrate wealth and income in their hands.Nothing can save America until we change. And the mystery of reformation lies beyond the ken of our social scientists. Perhaps only large-scale turmoil can reawaken our spirit, although that did nothing for the Roman Republic (nothing good, that is). Sans that, the best we can hope for are efficient and merciful tyrants.
America is the new Rome. Late Republican Rome (not the best of times)
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