I've been wondering if The Great And Powerful O will view a President Trump, Carson, Cruz, whoever as a threat toward "undo(ing) all my hard work," as the emperor has very recently fretted, and proclaim martial law for life. Plenty are the idiots who would support that.
Hail Caesar!

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/28/politic...

I read it long ago, and regard it as a classic example of the "post hoc" fallacy.

Some historians set the start of the decline of the Roman Empire at around the time of Julius Caesar and Augustus.  The Roman and US constitutions have a number of likenesses and similar evolution from their beginning until they became essentially a political tool used, interpreted or ignored.  The US constitution seems to be at the same “evolutionary” place that the Roman constitution was just before Julius Caesar installed himself as emperor.   If this is true and we can use Rome as a template, maybe we can expect the US to drift into a long decline for the next ??? years until Washington D.C. is sacked.   
   The Roman Republic functioned well as long as the Roman Citizens were proud of their country. The citizen was proud as long as the leaders where honorable. In the early years of Rome, the various magistrates voluntarily resigned after one year in office. Even the generals were recruited for one year of service when needed. Roman citizens were known to brag that Rome did not have a King. The citizens had a great deal of liberty that created the greatest economic empire in the world. Where ever the Roman Empire spread it brought a standard legal system along with security and language. Many citizens of countries annexed by Rome were better off than under the original leadership.

we are all now holocaust victims. You may change your mind if you read the book.

I doubt it. If we are, then what group is going to become the Holocaust victims this time?

actually what is and has been going on for 50 years is that the US is paralleling Germany. I suggest you read "Ominous Parallels" by Leonard Peikoff.

The article is too moralistic to be reliable.
Rome fell due to climate change.
Sudden then persistent cold severely limited crops which especially in northern Europe devastated agrarian tribes. Cold reduced forests, grasslands and fields thereby reducing the animals on which human hunters lived. Waves of the starving, some in thousands, fled west and south.
Rome which had culturally decayed from the time of the republic and early empire could not withstand the mass onslaught.
( climate change = natural variations in solar radiation received, winds, waves, temperatures, rainfall)

Yes there are lessons here.
No need to impose religious moral ideological views on others.
"Nature, to be controlled, must be obeyed"

y'know, the term "government owned" is an oxymoron,
unless you subscribe to the notion that legal constructs
can replace people as owners. . there are horrible things done
behind these constructs. -- j
.

Yes. . if integrity and honesty were the "coin of the realm,"
there would be millions suddenly poverty-stricken who
were formerly wealthy. -- j
.

I was fortunate enough to see Pompeii in '68 and I keep on
seeing the parallels with the current u.s. -- except for the lead
pipes. . we have the drugs, the loose morals, the power-centered
"leadership" and the rest. . argh. -- j
.

Been sayin' it for years. Not many cared to pay heed. Now, too many ignorant to see parallels and are fated to become footnotes in history, taking us down with them because the avalanche overcomes all in its path.