The beginning of the dis-united states?
What think you of this? — Banno
The beginning of the dis-united states?
What think you of this? — Banno
What think you of this? — Banno
First, this is an interesting conversation, but the title sucks. It gives no indication about what the subject is. I've read through the thread and I don't know what it means. If you fixed it, you'd probably get more involvement. — T Clark
I did once think that human life is always leading toward greater unity among people, so I thought a global government was inevitable. — frank
My reading of the article was not as suggested by many of the posters, that the US is in a tail spin. I read it as emphasizing the incompetence of the federal government and the increased reliance on local government. This insight is consistent with conservative ideology, which never believed in a large federal presence and would welcome a return to a weakened fed and stronger local rule.I don't read the article as dependent on a synchronistic between the history of Rome and of the USA.
What is being compared is the development of local autonomy in both as they decline. This seems to me a valid comparison, despite other differences in their history. — Banno
then states may want to secede from the union, — Stella Jones
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