They made it 1000 years. We're not even to a quarter of that yet and the wedge issues are becoming so wide that bridging them may become impossible. And sadly those wedge issues are comprised of mostly morality issues.
With so many convincing themselves that something as simple as BIOLOGY is up for debate how do you negotiate with such ignorance?
Hate crimes, a ridiculous term imo, are on the rise DRAMATICALLY but not in the manner that the elites and media portray.
Boys are coddled as girls & vice versa instead of their mental illness being treated.
Crimes are going unpunished for one segment of society in the name of social justice. Adults are having their lives wrecked for shit they said as a child.
Young adults are being taught that capitalism & being white is a bad thing.
The list goes on and on.
How do we ever recover from this lunacy, or can we?
You are correct. Leftists want Socialism and Socialism kills countries. Rome's biggest issue was multiculturalism. Doesn't work. Not the SAME as racism. Don't care what color you are or race you are but we all need to embrace American values of burgers, football, democracy, etc. If you start imposing crap like socialism, sharia, etc. in pockets and it spreads the country dies.
Another member of 'we're completely fucked and about to collapse' club.
But why would EVER want people like this in leadership roles? Why would we ever want them as part of our government? Nihillism make be the beating heart of the GOP, but its nothing to build a nation around.
What specifically did you disagree with in my post? Learn history. Multiculturalism crushed the Roman Empire. And yeah if we keep censoring opposing views in the media, both traditional and social and allow a tiny minority to control the narrative of the majority because the majority fears that it may offend someone and lose their livelihood then yes, a nation can collapse.
But the Roman empire was evil,
It was what?
based on greed, slavery, imperialism, colonialism, terrorism, murder, racism, religious fanaticism, militarism, and all sorts of bad things.
It was based on peace - and also on bread and games. Who behaved bad aginats a slave was called to be a barbar. Racism? In Rome? Rome was in all questions of polytheism very tolerant - and it had only 1 soldier (=policeman) per 100,000 inhabitants. And I fear in Rome existed "bad things" which names you never had heard in your 20 lifes.
The only good thing to say about Rome is that for a very short time then claimed to understand the good points of a republic, that only lasted about 400 years, from 509 BC, to 27 BC.
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Only" 400 years?
And they never made rights universal, so even that was corrupt.
Only in Rome existed legal certainty. A law had to be written down.
But at no time in Rome did anyone care what anyone else thought or felt.
Interesting that you use "Rome" here as a variable for every society and nation of the world - but nevertheless everywhere some take care.
It was an extremely narcissistic society.
The "USA first" - Donald Trump - is an extremely narcissistic society. And much younger than 400 years.
Rome was good at technology though, like weapons, military strategy, etc.
Some kings gave their empires for nothing to the Romans, because this meant for the own people to be able to live in peace within the Roman empire.
The Roman Empire was evil because it has no moral compass, its laws were not based on anything real, like the concept of inherent rights.
It was based entirely on greed, and that allowed for no end of abuses and excesses.
Rome was the opposite of peace.
Pax Romana was not the prosperity of being free, but the corrupt profits of a few based on the total subjugation of the vast majority.
While it is true there was a wide variety of racial and ethnic composition to Roman society, the existence of 5 distinct classes of Roman citizenship shows an arbitrary disregard for anything being inherent, and instead rights were arbitrarily based on wealth.
The free bread came from slave labor. The circuses came from slave gladiators. The wealth came from invasion, oppression, and theft.
But I will grant that Rome was about the first to make captives feel they had some sort of opportunity to advance in Roman society, in comparison with other societies, where rebellion was your only option.
Starting in 1776, the US is 246 years old, which is not far off of 400,
Unions are almost a thing of history, so slavery has returned.
Homelessness has greatly increased.
The incarceration rate is higher than ever, and the war on drugs, federal gun control, etc., are totally illegal.
Most people can no longer afford college.
Etc.
Just like Rome, we are becoming based on wealth and privilege instead of rights.
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