One of the greatest fallacies shared by many citizens of the land in which I am writing these words is their naive American Exceptionalism — the gullible perception that ‘it can’t happen here;’ that the United States is some kind of ne plus ultra political community, which, having attained the summit of liberty and social perfection, is somehow immune to the slings and arrows that take other empires down. The greatest empire of all, on which all of our Western systems are based, the Roman, saw its greatest period, that of the Pax Romana, expire after the passage of some 207 years. As of this moment, the ticking clock of the United States shows 244…
ne plus ultraI do not intend, God forbid, to offer any predictions of my own. Quite simply, using myself as an example, I’m laying out how lit
