Are We Doing The Fall Of Rome All Over Again?

[Aristus]

2. Not every historian takes the allegory as far as it can go.

It's important to remember that while the city of Rome fell, the Empire never really did. At least not until over a thousand years later. The Rome of the Caesars evolved into the Byzantine Empire. And although the Byzantines spoke Greek and worshipped Christ, they considered themselves the Roman Empire.

The Rome of 23 b.c. and the Rome of 1453 a.d. could scarcely be more different from one another, but they were both the Roman Empire.

It's entirely likely, by this measurement, that the USA won't "fall" so much as evolve into something else.