> The us is still one of the most free countries in the world and people literally risk death to come here. More people risk their lives to go to Turkey. That'

> The us is still one of the most free countries in the world and people literally risk death to come here. More people risk their lives to go to Turkey. That's not a valid metric. > Our government is not even close to the imperialist Roman empire. That's correct. We need to stop comparisons like that, the Roman empire or republic is nowhere near any of the current countries or organizations in 2019. > A closer comparison would be the EU and the fall of it (Brexit). EU is not even close to the imperialist Roman Empire either. I mean, the main comparison point between Rome and US is the amount of military forces it keeps abroad (which is not enough for the comparison to make sense IMO). EU doesn't really even have an army. It is pointless to compare both. And Brexit has strengthen Europe for a generation at least: people proposing exiting from the EU have basically gone silent almost everywhere where they used to be audible. It used to be a policy that could be defended by moderate right or far left wings, no it is seen as a purely populist far-right strategy.