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> America's going through the the same thing Rome did 1000 of years, and we may lose the republic. // Well, I realized that - what happened in Rome? Rome made a
by mdp2021 2y ago
> America's going through the the same thing Rome did 1000 of years, and we may lose the republic. // Well, I realized that - what happened in Rome? Rome made a lot of money because it was conquering half the world, and that money was going into Rome, but didn't really just all go to the people. It went to the people running Rome, who were the senators - and just and the same exact thing is happening in America, where of course, there's a lot of money. You know, this is a time of great economic recession, but in the world, no one, no one's getting through it better than America is. America has a lot of money. Yeah. // And what our senators are doing now instead of really running the country and making it as good as it possibly can, they're all manipulating their power: that's exactly what Rome senators did and ultimately how Rome lost it and ended up with a king or a dictator at first. [Interviewer: "So you start seeing the parallels then between..."] Well, I'm not the only one seeing it. Everybody. Yeah. They do Saturday Night Live skits about it
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