The Trump Error Begins!

Did the Romans know it was over?  

In 476 AD, the Germanic leader Odoacer, deposed Emperor Romulus Augustulus and that was the true and official end of the Roman Empire but Rome was first sacked in 410 by Visigoth King Alaric and had limped into it’s final decades.  But you have to go further back than that as the Goths killed Emporer Valens in 378 but he was only the “eastern Emporer” of Rome as the country had already split along party lines due to political in-fighting which caused Emperor Diocletian to divide the Empire into 2 halves.  Those two halves could never agree on Government priorities and the Empire essentially dissolved into chaos. 

Unlike today, January 20th, 2017, there was no particular day to point to and say: “Yes, that’s when the Romans elected a guy who said he will change everything and he did – and then the Empire was destroyed.”  We will have the luxury of knowing exactly when we made the decision that pushed America over the edge – or maybe on to greatness (again) – who’s to say?

On the bright side, as noted by Samantha Bee, Trump doesn’t actually do what he says.  Or, then again, maybe he does because, as he said in Michigan: “When you cast that ballot, just picture a Wall Street boardroom filled with the special interests who are bleeding your country and your city and everyplace else…”  He is certainly delivering that already, with what the Washington Post calls “the worst Cabinet in American History” – a complete and utter sell-out to Wall Street and Special Interests.  

As just one colorful example, let’s look at this report in today’s New York Times about Rick Perry, who will be Secretary of Energy. The change from the leadership under Barack Obama is already striking: the current secretary, Ernest Moniz, is a respected nuclear physicist who also came to the job with significant experience managing scientific institutions, and he’ll be succeeded by someone who advocated eliminating the department, although in his defense Perry couldn’t quite remember that it was the one he wanted to get rid of (that famous “Oops” moment).

IN PROGRESS

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