Revisiting the fall of the Roman Empire

There is a supporting video recently found, and is attached below. The original post was back in early 2016.

Why write this?  I've already posted on it a couple years ago, if memory serves.  I've just spent a couple hours watching videos of what happened during that period of history.  It did confirm my opinion that the two most responsible figures for the fall of Rome were the Western Emperor Honorius, and the military commander Ricimer.

Honorius was Emperor during the time of the first sack of Rome in 410 AD.  He showed very little interest in the welfare of his people, and actually sabotaged efforts that could have held things together for another generation or two.  The sack of Rome pretty much opened the floodgates of destruction that was to overtake Rome in the following decades.

By the time Ricimer came along, the Empire was on its last legs.  But even here, there were competent generals, including Ricimer himself, who could have pulled things together for awhile longer.  Ricimer was like Honorius, as he cared little for the people he governed.

The point of the post is that when a society reaches a point where its leaders don't care about their own people, that society doesn't have much time left.  I get the impression a lot of the time that the leaders we have now are just like those two leaders of ancient Rome.

We can heed the warning of history, or we can fail to heed it, and repeat it.

We have an election coming up for the presidency.  It seems to me that we should elect someone who is vitally interested in its well being.  I don't get that sense from Hillary.  Actually, just the opposite.

As for the rest, I haven't analyzed them yet.  But Hillary is absolutely unacceptable.



Update:

The same for Biden and a many others in BOTH parties. It won't help much just to switch party control next year. It's going to take much more.