These yoemen flocked to Rome, where the jobs they might have gotten there were filled, instead, by the massive influxes of foreign slaves.

Increasingly these yeomen ceased to participate in public life, and in the Legions, as they were gradually replaced in the Legions by foreign mercenaries.

Thus, these disenfranchised and unemployed yoeman often had to be fed and entertained by government provided “bread and circuses” and, meanwhile, there was an extremely consequential shift from a Roman society focused on production to one focused on consumption.

In additionagricultural production changed from small yoeman owned and operated plots to large farmes owned by absentee landlords, run by an overseer, and usually staffed by slaves which focused not on producing efficient grains, but on producing meat–much more inefficient cattle–horses and in particular cows.

We too–at our Founding–were a predominantly agricultural society and country whose yoemen’s ideals were the animating ideals of our Revolution and the Formation of our country and we, too, have shifted from production to consumption.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDtkyOew_s8

And they are watching different movies too.

Riots by poor folk, opportunistically grabbing stuff in their looting orgy, is understandable but still bad. And most looters would agree it’s generally bad, but they think they’ll get away with it this time, and others are doing it – so they don’t want to be suckers.

But riots by spoiled rich kids?
Life is unfair – wahhhh!
WE DEMAND SOCIAL JUSTICE!

So we can riot.
Ain’t we moral? More moral than any who don’t riot.
Moral superiority.

Most of the rioters are doing virtue signaling to demand recognition as morally superior. Not power for themselves, but moral superiority.

They know they, the rioters, will mostly not get power. They support (weasel-) politicians who claim to support SJ & SJW actions. Their support for Dem weasels is, for themselves, mostly about moral superiority. The power goes to weasel leaders.

(Reminds me to visit their site: http://www.watcherofweasels.org/ )

The weasel Dem leaders are mostly faking the outrage, tho with so much practice wearing the rage mask, maybe underneath they’ve really actually become rage crazed. The (mostly-) college educated enraged Dem supporters are competing for moral superiority thru rage – the ones showing the most outrage are the most superior.

There’s always competition. Even in showing anti-competition outrage.

In his essay at American Greatness (“Breaking the Administrative state”)
Ned Ryun goes back one hundred years to Woodrow Wilson:

Read the writings of Woodrow Wilson to understand the Progressive ideal. It is this: to have a massive bureaucracy, an administrative state, filled with unelected, educated elites who would help accelerate “progress” in America.

[snip]

The problem with the administrative state approach is that eventually a large and powerful bureaucracy, with little real oversight from elected officials, and no electoral accountability by virtue of which the American people can remove them, thinks that it is in charge. It thinks that it decides all important questions that it can wield its power however it damn well pleases. And isn’t that the case in practice even though they never legitimately overturned the Constitution’s assertion of the sovereignty of the people?

This is the great tension that has exploded to the surface in the last four years when one Donald J. Trump showed up in D.C. in 2017 saying, essentially, “I’m the duly-elected president of the United States, by the means laid out in the Constitution. I make the decisions about foreign and domestic policy inside of my administration and how the laws will be carried out.”

In response, the administrative state actors said: ‘We don’t think so. We think we’re the ones who should make those decisions.’

or, as Neo wrote above: “It’s that the left thinks it is entitled to run things and that any impediment to that goal is illegitimate.”

The link:

https://amgreatness.com/2020/09/23/breaking-the-administrative-state-key-to-a-successful-second-term/

The Federal Reserve is a bigger crime syndicate than the Roman Catholic church? (Neither) That is a bridge too far even for you. Keep the comedy coming. 😉

In their pursuit of power, leftists will resort to mass murder, gulags, torture, whatever, to maintain their power.
Frankly, they want most folks dead.

Just listen to Bernie Sanders – “waiting in line for food is good;” that what his response when asked about folks in communist nations always having to wait in line for, literally, scraps of food.
AOC – worked her magic to ensure that Amazon would not be permitted to open up a branch in Long Island City, NY and employ hundreds or thousands of people.

And these two communist scum have never had to wait in interminable lines for scraps of food and, for the most part, are living off the taxpayer.
Communists POS like Sanders, AOC, Pelosi, et. al.., EXPECT and DEMAND to live off the sweat of the citizenry; no different than Royalty of Olde in Europe or like the Castro brothers or the former USSR leaders, etc.

A telling remark was made by Molotov, one of Stalin’s key advisors and signatory to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (more famously known as the Hitler -Stalin Pact).
Years after he retired he admitted that there were “excesses” during the Stalinist era.
Really?
I guess if 20 to 50 million exterminated by Stalin is an “excess, ” than Hitler’s 12 million victims was just a small bureaucratic error; a decimal place was incorrectly placed in determining how many should be executed.

ANTIFA , BLM, Sanders, AOC, Pelosi, Obama, Schumer, Harris, etc., are fully aware of the history of leftist regimes.
That they all support this form of govt., – a tyranny, a govt. of, by and for the ruling elites; a nation whose citizens will be slaves of the ruling elites – tells you everything you need to know what they think of the citizenry and what they have planned if they take power.

If they should ever take power, let’s hope that tens of thousands of armed citizens assault Washington DC and…….. well, ….. no need to say it; you know, eliminate once and for all the troublemakers.

The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens. Funding I consider as limited, rightfully, to a redemption of the debt within the lives of a majority of the generation contracting it; every generation coming equally, by the laws of the Creator of the world, to the free possession of the earth he made for their subsistence, unincumbered by their predecessors, who, like them, were but tenants for life… And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

The real reason why Soros and BLM/Antifa are unchallenged. Also why Trump had problems with Fed Reserve, which is not under federal control nor is it a reserve. It is a private banking cartel.

The greatest organized crime syndicate are seen in the banking cartels. People find this hard to believe, just like they thought the Vatican had only a minor child problem.

The hate, the violence, the vitriol and the destruction will increase IN DIRECT PROPORTION to what the Obama administration and the Democratic Party have to hide.

And IN DIRECT PROPORTION to their fears: Biden’s incompetence, Harris’s sheer inappriateness, the upcoming election loss, Judge Ginsberg’s replacement, the “unveiling” of Obama’s—and his adminitration’s—UTTER CORRUPTION (IOW the Durham report), the DNC’s UTTER CORRUPTION, the CLINTONs’ UTTER CORRUPTION.

Destroying the country is ALL THEY HAVE LEFT to protect themselves and to “persuade” (i.e., EXTORT) the electorate to vote them in.

But it’s not only a case of extortion. If they can manage to make things so bad that Trump will have to intervene with federal defense of the citizenry and its property, then they will most certainly go at him no-holds-barred with charges of unconstitutional behavior, despotism, opposing freedom of speech—TYRANNY!!!—which has been their wet dream all along.

They will also—obviously, nothing new here—ride the voting-by-mail tiger for all it’s worth.

They have nothing to offer except destruction.
And so destruction is what will be served up.

Encouraged and fortified by having with their MSCM allies sown HATRED so masterfully and so successfully thus far, they perfectly understand that the obvious next step—sowing CHAOS and violence—is the ONLY WAY they will have a chance come November.

The fear is that it just might work.

The latest “scandal” that most of knew about even if it was uncertain that it see the light—and disinfectant—of day…
Yes, the beloved son, St. Hunter (but note the “interesting” Kerry angle):
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/senate-report-details-hunter-bidens-extensive-foreign-business-dealings-and-obama-officials-efforts-to-distance-themselves-from-it/