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In summary: of the 4 biggest categories HHS (Medicare & Madicaid), Social Security or together Welfare, Treasury and Defense, Welfare is higher, Treasury is higher, and
Defense is not only lower, but has lost to Treasury as the third biggest expense category year to date.
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What made Rome fall?
1. abandonment of the strongly enforced central concept of "Roman-ness".
This came to a head in the rule of Phillip the Arab (Rome's Obama) who as figurehead of a cabal of faceless men made everyone inside the Roman Empire on a given day a citizen of Rome. This is of course identical to how current politicans hand out our passports like lollies to every barbarian new arrival from the Third World.
Passports are a contract, a fascist privilege and a responsibility. Not some sort of prize for forcing your way into a compliant bureaucracy's open borders nightmare.
Remember also that with the destruction of the concept of the passport comes the destruction of the concept of nationality. In turn, the removal of nationality removes the concept of loyalty- and its converse, treason.
Treason never prospers. What's the reason?
For if treason doth prosper...
NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON.
2. the shift from military expenditure to spending on maintenance of the bureaucracy.
Taxation became an end in itself in Rome, with the Curia (the Bureaucracy) taxing endlessly to maintain itself in its cancerous infestation of the body politic. The medieval concept of serfdom grew directly out of endgame Rome where farmers, free born farmers, were forced to remain on their fields and work without the traditional freedom of movement that was one of the defining characteristics of Rome at its height. No more travel, holidays, entrepreneurial trade or cosmopolitanism. Just hard grinding work and far too many levels of taxation.
3. aggressive positioning of Rome as a cultural and military power, whether it won every war or not.
Contrary to television's version of history- an infinitely regressive lie, Rome never in all its history won every battle or war. Frequently, Rome suffered catastrophic defeats, even at the pinnacle of its military superiority.
What defined Rome was its relentlessness. If an enemy cavilled or brooked them, Rome maintained the rage for years, decades or centuries if necessary until the enemy was destroyed. Until the end period when Rome lay dying for decades, its heart already torn from it, Rome was a merciless and efficient warrior empire. When it gave up on its confident aggressive promulgation of its own culture and defence, it was dead already.
This was illustrated by the behaviour of Rome when its citizens were kidnapped, "outraged" or murdered beyond its borders: whether the nation doing so was big or small, mud hut savages or fellow empire, a consular rank ambassador was dispatched to the crime zone to demand reparation and to promise horrible vengeance should the matter not be resolved to Rome's satisfaction. This mutated in endgame Rome into a classic "you're on your own" attitude coupled with embarassing fawning by the ever more effeminate ruling class.
4. "new age" beliefs.
endgame Rome embraced all the same perversions of nature and dismayingly stupid cult beliefs that have re-emerged today under the banner of the "new age". There's nothing new about it: in fact, from theosophy to channelling (same difference) from luciferian conspiracies to child abuse and sacrifice the final period of Rome embraced them all. Most of the cults even worshipped the same entities- Athtar / Ashtar for example.
5. decadent art destroyed unified culture.
The art of Rome had a unifying effect, elevated people's intellects and inspired people... Until the final century of Rome. That is when strikingly modern art appeared- abstract, cubist, surrealist- all of it childish, crude, ugly and disturbing. Those who opposed the endgame art were denounced as "old thinkers" and "classicists" who were credulously clinging to outmoded beliefs and traditions.
6. allowing alien infestations.
When the savages from beyond the frontier mounted a quiet invasion in the form of mass illegal immigration, Rome at first fought them but then gave up. Many modern historians conceal the struggle by making this form of mass immigration seem inevitable. It isn't, but it requires political will and military force to stop. By allowing a long succession of bisexual deviants to take power in Rome the top of the political system was decapitated. These self-preoccupied perverts enriched themselves whilst paying little or no attention to the serious business of government. As a result Rome lost the will to defend itself from the parasitic invasion of foreign savages.
To make the savages behave themselves Rome bribed them with exhorbitant welfare, discriminating in their favour out of fear that they might turn violent. Whilst local lowborn Romans fought them, the Roman government paid reparations to the infesting aliens, and even punished locals for stopping the invasion.
7. homosexual marriage.
Through its history homosexuality had been at different times tolerated, laughed at as a "greek disease" or seen as a sign of weakness in Rome. Traditional family values were seen as essential to the health of the individual, the local community, the region and the Empire.
When a particularly degenerate emperor, Heliogabalus, forced the taboo of homosexual relationships being consecrated by religious ceremony into what we would call the gay marriage issue, he ultimately got his way and went through a ceremony with his male lover to become his "wife". This broke forever the discipline of the Roman culture.
It wasn't simply the elevation of promiscuous homosexual sexual disfunction to the same status as normal healthy relationships, it was also the fact that the secular arm of the state forced its will on private religious life. Apologist historians are forever emphasizing that the Roman state had religious functions, but these were sanctioned state superstitions no different from our own bureau of meteorology, coupled with a spiritual function not much more significant than horoscopes in the daily newspapers with the occasional outbreak of Y2K or 2012 style credulous hysteria.
Forcing the acceptance of homosexual marriage on a conservative sensible and family oriented citizenry sent a message that their leaders felt that normal relationships were as valueless and empty as the compulsive sexual frenzy of psychosexual deviants. Message received: Roman family life went into an irrecoverable decline.
Well, thank God nothing like that will ever happen to our civilisation, right?
