“History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.” MayEndsGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsTeachCapacityFinancialRepublicHappy LifeLimitlessBankruptcyFacadeConstitutional Government Author:Chalmers Johnson
“A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.” IfsNationsLosesDemocracySticksRepublicDictatorshipImperialism Author:Chalmers Johnson