The American Republic Enters Roman-Style Foreign Corruption Phase
The American Republic Enters Roman-Style Foreign Corruption Phase Will Caesar come next? CHRIS WALDBURGER By the end of the Roman Republic, its democracy had become entirely decadent. Foreign powers were bribing the Senate. Effeminacy and depravity ruled the upper classes. Elections were entirely rigged. The old Roman religion was usurped by bizarre mystery cults from the east. Does this sound familiar? In short, the time was ripe for Julius Caesar to wipe away the rot, and then for his heir, Augustus, to become Princeps and Imperator. (Christians once saw this as provident. The great Roman peace, with its common language of Greek, its system of roads, and its law and order, allowed for the great announcement of an evangelion of a different kind of imperator, one who fulfilled the promise of the Old Testament, the best of Greek thought, and the grandeur of ancient heroism.) Oswald Spengler in his theory of cyclical history posited that a Caesar will always arise to cut through the