this article is longer than usual but it contains much truth and entertainment, with perhaps some revelation as well. the link is live so it will take you to the rest of the story, as paul harvey used to say;

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear..”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

The American Empire started down a slippery slope to oblivion at the beginning of the reign of Bush Junior.

No one “won” the election of 2000. The Supreme Court, on partisan count, voted in GWB. He, of course, was the draft dodging drunken village idiot who accomplished nothing of merit his entire life with perhaps the sole exception of finding Jesus in his fourth decade. Frankly I never even knew Jesus was lost.

We had a president who wasn’t really THE PRESIDENT and a vacuum of leadership at the top of the most powerful nation in history. Politics abhors a void so the Vice President and his band of merry men took over the reins of power. In a soft coup a group of about a dozen religious fanatics owing their first allegiance to a foreign power seized control of the military and the foreign policy of the United States.

America soon found itself immersed in a series of meaningless wars at great expense where only one territory actually “won” anything. I call it a territory because countries have borders and lawsand this entity has neither.

America eventually tired of The Forever War. On the basis of a pledge of no more war a candidate from the other party became president after the 2008 election. The Nobel Committee was so thrilled that he managed to go 17 days in office without starting a new war that they awarded Obama a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.

In return Obama managed to serve eight years in office with US troops fighting somewhere during every single day of the two terms.

Then we had the incredible election of 2016 with a candidate promising to tell the truth about who did 911, Hillary would get the jail cell she so richly deserves and we would cut out the stupid wars. So far Trump is batting an even zero for three.

Over the centuries father-time changed Rome since the days of Julius Caesar. The bridge over the Rubicon is now a one-way toll bridge. The toll is mandatory. The toll collector wants his payment now.

Ever since the birth of the CIA in 1947 the three letter agencies in the US, including the CIA, FBI, NSA and DOJ, have believed they should specialize in regime change. We had them in Greece and Guatemala, Iran and Iraq, Syria and Somalia, Ukraine and the Congo, the list goes on forever. http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/11.18/traitors.html