Spencer Klavan has written a piece examining whether the present crisis of the US is parallel to the fall of ancient Rome, something that many internet commentators have supported, albeit briefly without the necessary historical argument and detail. In a nutshell: “[Both] republics have their own vulnerabilities, one of which is despotic ambition among the rich and powerful. As Machiavelli observed, the “corrupt and insolent behavior” of those “undertaking to retain power” can be fatal to a republic’s legitimacy. When state authority becomes a mere pretext for class hierarchy, as the Gracchi suggested it had in Rome, the system starts to look like a sham. Some would argue that this is exactly our situation. The ideological capture of major corporations and media outlets, the relentless exportation of American jobs and importation of foreign labor, the pretextual use of Covid-19 to transform election procedures, leaving them highly vulnerable to fraud — all these trends, and others besides, indicate that our elites are making a bid for oligarchic control.”
This is indeed exactly what we have seen through the Covid plandemic, which the elites see as a necessary part of the Great Reset. Ancient Rome has nothing on the level of corruption seen today, so is seems that on he present course, collapse will be inevitable.
