America’s Coming 4th Republic
April 21st, 2009 by G.
A nice argument, but what really comes after Republic is Empire. You can fight it–you ought to fight it–but can you stop it?
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Filed under: We transcend your bourgeois categories | Tags: decline, res publica, Rome
Filed under: We transcend your bourgeois categories | Tags: decline, res publica, Rome
April 21st, 2009 12:30:00
Ben Pratt
April 22, 2009
That was pretty solid, except for the line about the next thing being another republic because that’s American culture. I don’t know about that, and like you said, history doesn’t agree.
Rameumptom
April 23, 2009
Empire or an authoritarian force usually occupies a nation after its failed attempt at freedom. It often occurs because the freedom sought is not accompanied with self-restraint nor self-responsibility. Eventually, people seek safety and security over freedom.
This happened in the French Revolution, where chaotic freedom in the hands of mobs, forced a restructuring into an Empire so as to establish some form of stability.
I believe we hit that stage, beginning with the New Deal. We have been an Empire, replacing the Republic with a form of Democracy that has slowly grown ever more powerful, not just within the nation, but globally.
Now, I believe we go to what comes after Empire.
G.
April 24, 2009
When political disagreements turn into criminal prosecutions, what comes next isn’t everyone having a good laugh about what fools we’ve been. This sort of thing was a big part of the end of the Roman Republic.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/04/023377.php