End of An Empire: A Kingdom Divided Cannot Stand

I’ve been told I tend to be negative. I disagree. I am frank and honest. At times cutting and sarcastic. I demand more of people. Especially intellectually. What I hate and will not do is walk away without having reasoned though an idea logically or at least thought critically on something in as unbiased a way as possible. 

I don’t care that we don’t agree on something. I care that we fight having not understood.

I care that you haven’t thought thoroughly through the problem. I care if you are only acting on impulse, emotion, ignorance or all three. Lately I’ve actually been quite positive in light of all the uncertainty in the country. I am trying to dispel deception which leads to death(s).

We have weak politicians and they are sorely misguided. I believe most of this is because (1) We abandoned God, therefore a moral absolute and (2) We replaced Him and enshrined knowledge, scientific method and relative truths devoid of God. I’ve written about this often. Sadly, many politicians spend most of their time, money and efforts trying to undo each other and destroy one another’s lives to get re-elected. Rarely are they interested in fixing problems in their electoral districts. I believe all parties wish to keep hot-button issues in play because it keeps the Us vs. Them mentality in play. Racism, abortion, guns, sexuality, gender, etc. Thereby, they keep the polemic in play that keeps them in office. Instead of being unified we're literally in a constant state of internal war. We’ve empowered politicians and they have become worthless, race-baiting, immoral beasts. Because they are egocentric self-aggrandizing narcissists the issues remain like fixing race issues/providing equal justice to all as we have seen this week. Instead we get slanderous insults and political epithets flung like rhetorical grenades. We get George Floyd and the aftermath. We also get the ensuing protests that get hijacked by rioters and looters. Ever so slowly we decent deeper into chaos. Turning our back on light we run deeper into encroaching darkness. The waning twilight of empire.

All of that to say the following...which I've said multiple times before.

This is our own fault via our voted officials. The fall of empire is nearly always preceded by three key factors in Scripture and secular history. All of which you are currently seeing in play in society.

The empire incurs massive debts because of overspending on grandiose megalomaniac dreams. Currency becomes inflated/hyper-inflated and the base currencies become horribly devalued. People that normally would’ve been well-off begin to drift towards poverty. A lien is put against future earnings because that's what debt does to a nation. The empire's constituents by-and-large become enslaved to debt or indentured to said debt. The empire spends next year's money on things today and the cycle continues forward unabated. The gap between income and debt widens. The gap between rich and poor is insurmountable. Simultaneously, a political and fiscal aristocracy begins to rise. Not because of moral superiority but by chance and/or birthright. This then bleeds to the second factor.

The military and/or those within it, because they are becoming compensated less and worked harder, begin to either have divided loyalties or the military itself begins to draw on outside sources for defense internally and externally. When this begins to happen the resources begin to become stretched. Sovereign lines or borders of defense become overreaching. Combined with the fact that internal loyalties become dubious the borders of sovereignty become porous because they are so stretched and weakened. We literally begin to let the enemy right into our defensive ranks like a Trojan horse. The empire then becomes easy prey for predators because their attention is directed inward towards chaos and moral rot within. They are blind to the wolves/armies circling their camps, cities or empires. For Israel it was the Assyrians. For Judah it was the Babylonians. For Rome it was the barbarian hordes. In the end Rome even made alliances with the barbarians to protect their overstretched porous borders...but those barbarians had loyalties elsewhere. When the city of Rome fell, Jerome was known to have stated: 

"The city which had taken the whole world was itself taken."

The third is immorality. The nation falls into an anarchic immorality. It becomes self-absorbed, narcissistic and egocentric. Not anarchy in the purest sense but an immorality where people can no long think clearly. They're incapable of thinking morally because their minds are seared by corruption. We become sexually depraved. Things once thought too far beyond the pale become commonplace. Pretty much a nation of people where 'anything goes'. Because the citizens of that nation no longer apply themselves to a single form of order, law or morality…everyone begins to have their own. Right and wrong become a relative concept. Literally…anything goes. Order therefore begins to dissolve and chaos ensues. Anarchy. Compound this with no one to loyally defend the nations sovereignty and populous falling into poverty...the end will come quick.  

A kingdom divided cannot stand.

It happened to Rome. It happened to Greece, it happened to Israel and then Judah in the Old Testament. At some point we drift over the line of no return into oblivion and disappear from history. I fear we are at that chasm now and we are peering into the abyss for American Empire. If you don't think this could happen to the United States you do not understand history and you do not understand the inherent depravity of mankind. We may not get this chance again. The barbarians are at the gates and some have even gotten in through the cracks in the walls.