The duration of empires has shortened over the millennia. The earliest empires lasted for thousands of years. Two thousand years ago, they measured their duration in the several hundreds of years. Today's American empire will last less than two hundred and fifty years. It has already seen its rise and the bulk of its fall.

The similarity to the Roman Empire is almost spooky. Right up until the Sack of Rome by the barbarians, the Roman citizens believed they were still a mighty empire, even though it had long since fallen past the point of no return.

And a hundred years before it fell I'm sure similar stories sprung up over whatever issue they were having at the time.

Point is, if it happens there isn't much you or I can do...And all that we can do is hope it doesn't happen. Because we are beyond controlling it, we had our chance years ago to kill it before it even began and we chose the other direction...Our government didn't kill our country, our apathy killed it.