It may be
that unlike the Roman Empire, our porous borders won’t allow our nation to be increasingly filled with strangers from other cultures who begin by filling the lowest positions in society and end by taking over.
It may be that unlike the Roman Empire, our government won’t become a Raubwirtschaft, increasingly plundering the resources of those who produce to feed the increasing hunger of the useless ruling class.
It may be that unlike the Roman Empire, increasing taxation of the producers won’t lead to a populace willing to accept any new rule as long as the old one will go away.
It may be that unlike the Roman Empire, we won’t stop being able to support our own superior military because of the increasing burden of entitlements.
It may be that unlike the Roman Empire, once the greatest empire on earth, the USA, the greatest nation on earth, will learn from the mistakes of the past, and fail to repeat them.
But I doubt it.
Today I am thankful that I have had the ability to experience our Great Nation during the course of it’s greatness. I will tell those stories to my child, and teach them to her, and tell her to teach her children, and perhaps someday, my great great great grandchildren will hear them, and be moved to strive for freedom once again, somewhere, somehow. I have no hope left for this nation. I have hope for the offspring of the wise.
Be thankful. And teach your children well. If you have no children be a big brother or a big sister to one. The seed may lie dormant for generations,. but once planted on fertile soil, it will grow again.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, Og.
Your insight is devastatingly true my friend.
You’re saying we have an empire coexisting with the republic, and that it has essentially short-circuited the republic’s institutions in order for it to function.
Maybe it’s foolish of me, but I’m not so despairing yet. However, I agree that it behooves us who loved her to sow a few seeds in the hopes that our posterity will have them so they can rebuild anew. Do not let those who claim to mean well silence you and put you off, because hiding amongst them are those who mean you no good at all.
“Do not let those who claim to mean well silence you and put you off, because hiding amongst them are those who mean you no good at all.”
Indeed. The real hope lies in having a good network of people around you, like you yapping at me at all hours about where to go next, like Mr B supplying me with firewood to keep me warm, like N5 letting me hunt on his land so I can put a deer in my freezer, like Midwest Chick serving me bacon in a gold bikini.
I don’t have to have a thanksgiving day to say these things, I say them to those people’s faces every day. They know. They understand. Thanksgiving is what I do every day when I wake up.
The empire you suggest, a kafkaesque vermin which has awakened transformed and vile, has now forced us, like the Samsa family, to go outside our normal framework to maintain our life- but unlike the Samsas we won’t be able to shake off the vermin.
It is a struggle, but a worthy one. I’m constantly surprised by the crap my kids hear at school.It took days to convince them that even though 2 of their great grandfathers shot at one another in the Ardennes in 1945, BOTH were kind, honorable family men, rightfully trying to do what they thought was just. Og’s right. We must stand together.
The deer don’t hold a patch on bacon and a gold bikini. Which I do not own and would not serve bacon in, if I did.
Happy Thansgiving Og and family.
And you too, Rich! Hope to see you around Christmas!