America, the new Rome

I can't help but feel apathetic for my country at this moment as I sit here eating my breakfast.  I read and listen to the various news sources and it simply amazes me how our politicians do one thing and tell us they did the exact opposite.  And we let them get away with it over and over.

For those who haven't studied history and I may get some particulars wrong but Rome was once a Republic like the United States and became over time a Dictatorship but still kept the semblance of a Republic so that the people as a whole didn't revolt against the elite.  What Rome the politic had going for them that the USA politic do not is that the majority to Roman citizens were ignorant in the sense that they could not read nor write.  Here in the USA, although we haven't shown it for years, we have a 99% literacy rate.  What that means it that 99% of citizens over the age of 15 can both read and write.  I suppose the next thing they who take these surveys should test for is comprehension and reasoning skills for we surely lack in those areas.

At least the Tea Party movement gives me hope that we may be able to save this country from our own self-afflictions before we turn into another Greece.  Who is to come to our rescue?  The only country they would have the means would be China and I'm not even sure they have the means.  And if they did would they want to??

It just seems surreal to me that the last two super powers are going in the opposite directions: America, from a capitalist society to a socialist one; China, from a pure communist dictatorship to a mix of communism to capitalism (I call it directed capitalism).  The simple fact they one should look at is from where did these two super powers come - America from being the greatest super power, China from being a poverty poor country of millions.  Not until China started to integrate capitalism did it begin to become an economic super power.  Not until Obama, and Bush before him all the way back to Wilson, started to take over private industries did we go from the undisputed super power to a country that may not survive.

God save our great Republic.