The elite class in the US is mirrored in the Roman Patrician class. During the high period/Golden Age of Rome, many of the competent citizens, disgusted with what they saw, leaving for the provinces to make a new life, far from the Appian Way. Reading the history (abbreviated) of the Roman Emperors beyond Augustus and his Pax Romanus shows that they ended in suicide, regicide, or being smothered in a pile of dirty laundry. They seized power alternately with the support of the Spanish Legions, German Legions, Praetorian Guard (several times), usurped, assassinated, occasionally inherited and so forth. And during much this time, there was a Roman Senate seated. Presumably they were elected.
In Rome, the republic was betrayed long before Julius Caesar, but he was pivotal as was Trajan, where the Roman Empire reached its apex in territory and wealth. The transition to empire means the end of meaningful elections. Some argue that the USA is there now, but I think that we are teetering. The FBI coup attempt (or ‘insurance policy’) is the first we’ve experienced as a nation but the corrupt, co-opted, lying mainstream media’s endless stream of propaganda has served to deflect the moment when the Deep State, working in concert, almost deposed an elected president. As the elite compounds its mistakes in an orgy of failure after failure, spending and borrowing endlessly, they panic because their prerogatives are not safe. It happened in Rome and it is happening two thousand years later. The same, and not the same.

In a nation abounding in wealth, employment, food, and peace, finding a grievance that works is a challenge and that challenge is taken up by the best and brightest lawyers in government and the best and brightest lawyers out of government. Working together collaboratively, they create the “reality” that the mainstream media distributes by way of propaganda. The elite refer to themselves as ‘stakeholders’ and the great unwashed between the coasts are client/pawns.
The client pawns with a remnant of power that the elites did not calculate into their process voted Donald Trump to be president, rejecting the carefully crafted, pre-anointed, and infinitely corrupt Hillary Clinton. Is it any wonder that the reaction, the failed coup, the FBI insurance policy managed by adulterous fools, chatting about their conspiracy through government e-mail servers created such a dust-up among the elites.
What we all want to know: exactly when will these Deep State malfeasants be held accountable? They have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar, and everybody (at least us 'clients') sees their treachery for what it is – a mutiny.
Us clients want to see a whole lot of Deep Staters swinging from the gallows.
Will that ever happen? We want to know.
Donald "Maximus Decimus Meridius" Trump…America's top gladiator.
Just read the media is now pushing their latest "got the memo" e-blast from the DC subversives that a "new witness" will deliver "damning evidence" to the Dems.
The treasonous anarchists are getting even more desperate.
Lessons from Roman history, yes. Difference today? The clients can read, write, and instantly communicate. Despite the elite's best effort, their monopoly on information is gone. Look what Polish underground newsletters accomplished. We had our version pushed by the John Birch Society, among others. Now we have the internet.
Take just three bloggers, you, Old NFO, and OldAFSarge. The diverse commentators would have had a much harder time reaching each other and exchanging opinions.
On the flip side, the lists of those who need to go to the re-education camps are much easier for the elites and their minions to compile. I get the bunk nearest the stove!
There's certainly an eery similarity and as it was then so now — the barbarians are within the gates.
I like your patrician/client-elite/pawn thoughts and of course there's plenty more similarities, not least economic.
The Western empire eventually decentralized, is that our trajectory?
The main difference between the Roman clients and us deplorables is that the clients weren't allowed to have swords. We have firearms and many ( most ? ) know how to use them.
Thanks for the post.
Paul L. Quandt
Another interesting read. I often here of the parallels of the US and ancient Rome and I hope it won't come to that. We'll likely know in the next few decades.
That is why the 2nd Amendment is such a problem for the Elites. If they can get rid of it either directly or by end arounds such as red flag laws and certain weapons bans, they can institute their "Empire".
Excellent comparison by the way…never thought of it that way but makes perfect sense.
History does repeat when te Grand Poobah's forget their humility and start thinking with impunity that we work for them. They underestimate the power of the information highway we now have – alternative outlets are slowly nullifying Lefty media propaganda sources.
I heard a deal yesterday that President Woodrow Wilson and his cohorts got into office with the intent on fully undermining the Constitution (something they placed their hand on a Bible and pledged to uphold. (There's a special place in Hell for those types.)
Liars and thieves and subversives are running the DC asylum, and they are vastly better at the undermining tactics (the Wyoming Range War comes to mind, Cheyenne-based cattle barons got really good at destroying any competition…most of them got away with murder and thievery while holding very nice dinners in the capital extolling their "virtuous" lives.)
We are making headway though…small step victories chipping away at the Swamp-dwellers stronghold..
I think the "elites" didn't pay attention in High School math class. There are hundreds of millions of guns in the US, and at least billions of rounds of ammunition.
Getting rid of them is a logistical nightmare, even (fat chance) with full co-operation.
-Kle.
Rounding up the aforementioned bloggers and sending them off to concentration camps will likely be more easily said than done. I do believe all of these guys are armed to the teeth.
And exactly what gives you dibs on that stove-side bunk, Fool?
Paul L Quandt: I can't imagine a whole lot of folk buying a firearm and not know how to use it. These figures would be virtually impossible to determine, but my best guess would be that ALL firearms owners know which way to point the business end of the gun, and how to pull the trigger. Give or take a few here and there. 99.999999999999999999% got it figured out.
Thought provoking post, LL, with some very interesting parallels.
Several of the people I talked with at the birthday party on Sunday commented on the complete disconnect with reality that "The Elites" (their actual wording) have. We joked about the City Folk not having a clue about where their food, water, power, and fuel comes from, and how the cities will crumble first, driving millions of 'refugees' into rural areas, *if* they even manage to get out of the cities.
The next question is… Who will be Brutus this time around?
Agreed.
Thoughtful post, LL.
Hmm, thought provoking, though I would say that with all the weapons at our disposal, and years of being free thinkers, the same conclusion is less likely…
Seniority. I've been on government shit lists for over 50 years.
Not teeth, eyebrows.
bread, Circuses…Hey! What time is the game on?
Sorry to crash the thread but… maybe half the GOP?
Call me an optimist, but I think that we'll see the first heads roll before the 2020 election.
The Deep State believes that they and not the President, should be in charge of US Foreign Policy. That's what the new witness said. In essence, "You America should leave those things to bureaucrats rather than elected representatives". It's interested that they swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution….maybe they need to re-read it.
WSF has been promised the bunk nearest the stove, but no wood or coal has been promised for the stove…
I think that eventually the entire world will balkanize. US, China, Great Russia, etc. It's sort of the darwinian trajectory.,
3D printing allows new metal printers to produce inexpensive printed weapons as a type of cottage industry. You may need to use barrel reamers but those tools are not difficult to produce.
I don't know how it will all fall out. My crystal ball is cloudy.
No, city folk don't know where the food comes from. It magically appears at stores where they trade their federal reserve notes for it.
Old NFO, I think that John Bolton would make a pretty good Brutus.
We need something like "Roller Ball" to distract the masses.
Ha!
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