Fall of the Roman Republic & The Fall of America’s Constitutional Republic — History Repeats Itself

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana

Internal turmoil provoked in 133 BC by economic stagnation in the city of Rome , slave revolts without, and dissension in the military precipitated a period of unrelenting political upheaval known as the Roman Revolution, the Late Roman Republic , or the Fall of the Republic, 133-27 BC.

Why Did The Roman Republic Fall?

Was it due to external circumstances (barbarian invasion, famine, plague, etc.) or to internal ones?

American must now take notice or be condemned to repeating history.

Douglass Jacoby in a podcast lists the following as symptoms of a “sick Roman society”:

• Mounting love of show and luxury.
• Widening gap between the very rich and the very poor.
• An increased desire to live off of the state.
• Freakishness in the arts, masquerading as originality.
• Absorption in entertainment.
• Obsession with sex.

I would add to this list the following:

• Godlessness and paganism.
• Worshiping oneself and not a higher spiritual calling.
• The indoctrination of a societies youth to believe that communism is better than capitalism.
• A loathing of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
• Judging people by the color of their skin rather than the content of their characters.
• An obsession with the occult.
• And finally – The Covid pandemic.

Covid and the Fall of the U.S. Constitutional Republic

Covid has become the primary means by which the state has taken away the rights of the individual to choose. Logic and science have been supplanted with fear. The following dictates have lead inextricably to a tyrannical state:

• Mask mandates.
• Shutdown of businesses.
• Vaccine mandates.
• Vaccine passports.

Government restrictions, using Covid as the weapon of choice, have now become the new normal in America. Government control of individual liberty, using healthcare as a means to the end of freedom of choice, is the real deadly virus.

Covid is control writ large.

The siren song of big government is “we’re here to protect you and your health by imposing un-Constitutional mandates upon you, your family, your business and your individual liberties.” We are here to protect you from yourself.

Conclusion

What happened to the ideal my body my choice?

Choice is key to any society, particularly when it comes to the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution.

Without the freedom of choice there is no republic. Choosing where one lives, how many children they have, where they go to school, the career they want, making decisions about their life, liberty and happiness are the bedrock of a free society.

Take any one of these choices away and you tear down the republic. It happened to Rome in 133-27 BC and it is happening right now in America in AD 2021.

I have lived thru four pandemics, including two under the Obama administration SARS and H1N1. Covid is a strain of SARS. I have never witnessed the massive media and government narratives designed to take away every American’s freedoms of choice. Never!

Prove me wrong.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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