He says, "I would say we’re very much like Rome around 88 B.C. I paused to flip through it once again. What happens next? Norm breaking, violence, and even assassination had proven useful political tactics. We're far from done, yet, but I think we're in for some re-organization. As I did, I was shocked to discover what the decline of the Roman Empire and our current economic situation here in the United States had in common. But in 88 B.C., the full dimension of Rome’s involvement in the Middle East and its role of superpower began to come home to it. Empires having been rising and falling for thousands of years. There are definitely parallels between what happened then, to those last, decadent Romans as their economic and political system collapsed in ruins about their feet, and what is happening in America, today, as our decadent and overly self-indulgent society seems to be on the very brink of economic and political collapse... Why did Rome fall? That always happens when I'm dusting or re-arranging my books. Political Instability Is Here but the U.S. Is Still a Republic. There are other people making the same comparison. As one of our Presidents once stated, "nothing happens that is not planned" What we are experiencing was planned at least fifty years ago. Not that we need to be the leading nation in the world, but back when things were good the corporations and their lobby in government did not have our best interests at heart. I have no idea of the conditions there but can imagine they are even worse than here. I don't know where we're going now...I wonder if the people running the government do, either! Outstanding piece of work. Citizens chose representatives to go into the senate or assembly, and those chosen made decisions that affected everyone. Once the complex society is no longer sustainable, it collapses into smaller, less complex units, which ARE sustainable with the available resources. Some Romans, like Brutus the younger, imagined the Republic could be restored even after Julius Caesar had himself named perpetual dictator in 44 BC. The mind manipulation games it plays on the consumers and the using of every born citizen as chattel to back it Debits with the Bankers! Also, I believe a lot of businesses became greedy over the years deciding they could outsource rather than figure out ways to save money while keeping jobs here. It’s no such thing as to “Big to Fail! In the US, the process is almost exactly the same. Within the big cities there is so much crime and while people are killing, fighting and terrorizing each other who's got time for considering where we all are heading? ); and. This broke another long-standing Roman political norm. This is an excellent hub of which I enjoyed greatly. The Roman Republic also provided an important caution. We’re still a republic, we still have our free elections, and we still have a great deal of opportu­nity. Or would we fail, as Rome did in the past? Germanic tribes that surrounded Rome, such as the Visigoths and the Vandals, sacked Rome and furthered its decline. It was browsing through that book that brought this whole thing to mind, and I'm actually quite serious about the survival kit. Sound familiar? The Roman Republic thrived for decades based on similar principles to America's, but then it failed. I don't think ours will be a gradual decline since things and events seem to happen at warp speed. SweetiePie from Southern California, USA on July 27, 2011: I agree with you about how President Obama is doing the best he can in a not so good situation.

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