How the Roman Empire collapsed: The American Exemplar

Uthman Shodipe-Dosunmu, a US-based scholar of classical antiquity, expresses his unique oponion on the American democracy As a scholar of classical antiquity and history of political thought, I believe I am well positioned to situate the current debacle in America with the eventual unraveling of the Roman Republic which was once the greatest democracy on Mother Earth before the Visigoths intruded upon the realm. Once, the greatest boast on earth was “Civis Romanus I” – I am a Roman Citizen. Such was the dignity and reverence of Roman citizenship. Elon…

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