How? We are still a republic, Trump might be referred to as god emperor but he is a far cry from Caligula.
We are not dependent on slave labor or collecting taxes through colonization. Our unemployment is at a low, quality of life is rising.
Our military power is unmatched, mutually assured destruction keeps our enemies at bay.
I don’t know what you are comparing United States to Rome other than Rome being a comparable super power in their day.
...Six Parallels
Murphy sees many parallels between the Roman Empire and America in addition to the above.{4} The following are larger, more extensive, parallels.
The first parallel is perspective. It actually involves “the way Americans see America; and more to the point, the way the tiny, elite subset of Americans who live in the nation’s capital see America—and see Washington itself.”
Like the Romans, Americans tend to see themselves as more important than they are. They tend to have an exaggerated sense of their own presence in the world and its ability to act alone.
A second parallel involves military power. Although there are differences, some similarities stand out. Both Rome and America start to run short of people to sustain their militaries and began to find recruits through outside sources. This is not a good long-run solution.
A third parallel can be lumped under the term privatization. “Rome had trouble maintaining a distinction between public and private responsibilities.” America is currently in the midst of privatizing functions that used to be public tasks...
This is just a hint of a larger article,
HERE.
It's fairly academic, and by that I don't mean that you can't understand it, just that it's dry and raises more questions than it answers.
Of course the USA isn't Rome, I mentioned that before.
My point was that all 'empires' or 'hegemony's' eventually fail,
and there's no particular reason the US will hold it's previous and current position.
We're a younger country than most, and we've done fabulous things, but we're sliding into delinquency and irrelevancy fairly quickly.
Like technology, the curve is accelerating, and we're trying to keep up in the wrong places.
I agree with your position about the US and poverty and raising the global situation etc. etc. Capitalism, entrepreneurship, innovation, no doubt.
But others are taking that model and beating us at our own game, and we're getting beat.
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