The Trump Indictment Is the Quiet Canary in the American Coal Mine

“Late stage empire.”

It’s a phrase that’s been ricocheting around in my head for some time now, and it only gets louder every time I sit down to write an article. I’m old enough to remember the time just decades ago when normalcy felt more easily come by and there was at least some semblance of respect for morality and rules.

This normalcy is part of what made the United States of America so powerful. We were a nation that many dared not confront or anger and yet everyone wanted to come to. Angering her had severe consequences. However, lurking in the shadows was a simple fact; we’re not invincible and any empire is capable of collapse. It happened to Rome, it happened to Great Britain, and now I’m sad to say it’s on the verge of happening to the United States of America.

And right on time as well. Historically, empires tend to crumble at the height of the people’s belief in and reliance on their nation’s prosperity. The good times create weak men who become so comfortable in their self-assurances that they ignore the cracks forming in the foundations of their civilization. America’s prosperity in tandem with its technological advancement made life so good that people began to search for problems to be bothered by. If they didn’t have any, they’d make them up, even going so far as to deny basic reality to do so. This kind of thinking creates very hostile groups, and those groups need enemies, and those enemies are hard to find.

These groups are very easily manipulated. All you have to do is demonize their enemies to the point of mythical villainhood and you’ve got yourself a boogie man you can scare people into compliance with.

In the modern era, there is no greater example of this manipulation than the hatred and fear of Donald J. Trump.

I don’t need to replay the history for you. You were there as the Democrat Party, activist community, and media spent years attempting to assassinate Trump’s character by exaggerating every flaw and lying through their teeth about his various “crimes.” Through their efforts, they created a visage of Trump that made him seem so horrible and dangerous that they managed to coerce and scare many Americans into thinking that getting rid of him was the only way to stop the madness

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