/lit/ - Literature

>>18761552
It's my own writing. I've been noticing our parallels to Rome for a while.

Right now, America's in its Late Republic. We are Rome in the 2nd or 1st Century BC. Trump was either Tiberius Gracchus or Marius, depending on how you prefer to view him. Biden is Sulla.

The mistake is to assume that America is already the declining Roman Empire. Rome was in a period of decline and strain during the end of the Republic, too. It's possible the empire would have totally collapsed if Augustus hadn't come around when he did. Augustus' reorganization of the bureaucracy and imperial administration basically saved the Empire that he helped create. In a similar way, the US could eventually cease being a republic and become a proper empire, and the emperor who finally ends the republic could reorganize and rejuvinate the administration of the American Empire, strengthening America and increasing its power. Rome always seemed to get the right man for the job when it entered a period of crisis, at least until the Ottomans came to town in 1453. America is in a period of crisis right now as its republic strains and collapses, but if it gets the right man in the highest point at the right time, a new dawn of power and prosperity could emerge for it.