USA: modern Roman empire?

When investigating the disappearance of the Roman Empire, a difficult thing, because it is not an individual, and the look is many ways and I see a pattern. Almost all cases, I can add to my list seems to coincide with events happening in America today. lack of leadership by the emperors of the wealthy class interest in politics more difficult to manage the empire, largely due to their size AT slave labor intensive forbidding Roman citizens to work or to study the behavior acts of abuse and lazy successful invasions And finally .... Do not be tempted by an exact match, but it does not take a little intellectual person can catch the resemblance, right? What might this mean for America? Thoughts?

Point by point: the lack of leadership by the emperors: If you are referring to Bush, who are very shortsighted, because it can not get the United States in eight years. Second, our representative democracy is in place so that only the president can not do everything. moneyed class is not interested in politics: It's the same as it always has been. Moreover, no difference anyway. difficulty managing the empire, due large part to its size: We have no problem managing our country because of its size, because we have a little thing called the states and each state has its own government, with considerable power. Except Alaska and Hawaii, we did not territorial gains from the US-Mexico War (1848). Abundant slave labor that cause Roman citizens not to work or learning: Ok this is easy. Slavery was abolished in 1865 and we have no slaves. Perhaps you are referring to outsourcing jobs to foreign countries, or perhaps even the problem of immigration. Nor are like the Roman Empire, because here in America, citizens should not be lazy and ignorant. Lazy behavior and actions of the Franchise: You earn it. successful invasions Check your history. The U.S. has never successfully invaded. Unless we are talking about illegal immigration, which is not a military invasion of type. We have the strongest army in the world, and I pity the country trying invasion. Roman army collapsed when its legions barbarians have been carried away by the heads of the barbarians. Bad idea.

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