Where are we headed, again?

Where are we headed?

A government that is becoming totally invasive in our lives is where we are headed. It almost looks like a totalitarian rule. I can’t help but draw a parallel between the U.S. and ancient Rome. Here are just some of the parallels so you get the idea.

The Roman Empire vs The United States

Why is it that we never learn from history? The parallels between the U.S. and the Roman Empire are staggering and so obvious that I don’t see how we can possibly be going down this path once again in the history of mankind on this rock.
The U.S. became a world power much like the R.E.
The U.S. broke away from European oppression.
The R.E. broke away from Greece much in the same way.
The U.S. is a representative republic, so too was the R.E. (sort of)
The country was attacked and or besieged and the attackers failed.
There was a civil war.
Rome depended on the prosperity of their individual towns and cities for their wealth.
Political careers and loans on easy terms could all be had with the proper patron-client relationship.
Rome initiated public education, we know about our public schools.
The elite Romans had the best health care and the common citizens were left to fend for themselves.
Beginning with Augustus Caesar, the city of Rome provided bread, oil and wine to its urban population. What this meant, is that almost 250,000 inhabitants of Rome consumed about 6 million sacks of grain per year, free. Rome provided citizens with food -- it also provided them with entertainment. Sound vaguely familiar?
Rome demonized the Catholics. What is the only faith that is attacked with impunity in the U.S.?
Rome embraced socialism and finally they just could not support all their subjects. Now I know that sounds familiar.
They taxed their people into the Stone Age. Hello!
The people had virtually no say in how things were done. Can we say Senate and Congress?
Just like our politicians they could install their own people. Case in point; Senator Incitatus, Caligula’s horse. We have people equally as bad, we have the buffoon Al Franken who is in the process of winning the senate seat through trickery and tom-foolery, not to mention out and out cheeting and lying.

Now we have mega corruption from Chicago style thuggery. We have ten appointees with either tax evasion problems or under investigation for this or that shady deal. Does this sound at all vaguely familiar to the above parallel?

We have a show of class and a show of childish sore looser syndrome. The class is how Bush did not lower himself to engage in rhetoric about attacks on his administration and the country. When it was transition time all went smoothly, not with childish retribution or payback for some perceived wrongdoing. The childish behavior would be the disgusting show of some sort of vengeance leveled at an incoming president such as the Clinton cabal pulled. Now we are getting the same from Obama’s henchmen. They are intimidating people and constantly berating the previous administration. What ever happened to being above all that in the office of the president? I thought there was this glorious speech from Pelosi about draining the swamp in Washington, well guess what, it is worse now than ever, and what are we to do about it?
The only thing I can see is we have to keep to values and principals of conservatism.
If Liberalism were what it started out to be, then that would be good also, however we have come to a nexus whereby the parties are corrupt and have mutated into some unrecognizable camarilla, the calyx of which lamely passes for politics. We can’t wait for some epiphany or thaumaturgy, because I don’t see any great light dawning or any magic or miracles coming around lately. I believe the country was bamboozled with words of a utopian existence. Many believed such drivel, however those of us who actually think about things were not fooled, oh we held out hope, but weren’t laboring under any false impressions or dilutions of grandeur on the part of our wonderful elected solons.
The government is becoming so intrusive that we now have to use the kind of light bulbs they say. (Which by the way are far worse for the environment than incandescent bulbs.) We have to eat what they want, drive what they want and act how they want. It is even coming to, we have to say what they want, the way they want, if we don’t we are racists, bigots, homophobes, or we don’t know what we are talking about. Global warming has become religion-like. The hell with science, let’s use demagoguery to turn people to our way of thinking. I hope and pray for a solid candidate that will stop all this insanity and get us back on the track to being, “the shining city on the hill.”
What does it come down to? Common sense, and perhaps a good long look at what exactly our representatives are doing. Above all, we must at all costs not empower one party to run roughshod over the citizens of our country. It is quickly becoming a country that is unrecognizable to our founding fathers and even the older generations. As the slogan says around here; “of course you can trust the government, just ask an Indian.” That pretty much says it all.