Thoughts for the Day 20240228

•  Why we NEED to study History
• Historian Mary Beard contends that 
• Rome became a de facto empire due to territorial expansion
• too vast to be effectively governed by a democratic republic
• So the territorial empire created the first emperors
• to fill a political void
• IMO This is frightening 
• the USA is rapidly expanding its holdings 
• (military installations)
• satellite nations
• We cannot decide how to effectively administer them
• Could this be why we are facing the threat of
• Emperor Donald Trump I?
• IMO This upcoming election is not
• whether the USA will become an empire or a republic
• But rather what direction the Empire of the United States will take.
• Or to put it more bluntly:
• The 1% want their empire
• and will stop at nothing to get it.
• Prediction: Tyrant Trump will fail
• He insists on doing everything himself
• Nothing happens without Trump's approval.
• He will drown in the details.