It's interesting living in the last days of the Roman Republic

[xiphias]

We can watch our Senate giving the executive dictatorial and imperial powers, the way that the Roman Senate did.

The weird thing is that we've got them doing that for Nero, not Julius.

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[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i wish i were gonna be alive in 200 years to look back at this.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Well, the United States has had 200+ years of being a beacon of enlightenment. That's actually a pretty good run. . . it's longer than Athens' Golden Age, for instance.

I still have hope that we're going to pull out of this -- we survived Andy Jackson and Richard Nixon -- and that we can give the Roman Republic a run for its money, as they lasted for, like 400 years or so.