Incitatus, Political Ineptitude, and Senators

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. – attributed to St. Augustine

The Roman Empire lasted over a period of 1,000 years, beginning with the 27 B.C., and ending in the East with the Byzantine Empire. The Roman Empire is the post-Republican period of ancient Rome, and it stretched around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. It was ruled by emperors, with the capital Rome in Latium until 476 A.D.

The imperial insignia was sent to Constantinople (the Eastern Empire eventually became the Byzantine Empire) after the capture of the Western Empire capital in Ravenna by Germanic barbarians when the last Emperor Romulus Augustus was deposed by the barbarian leader Odoacer.

The end of classical antiquity is considered 380 A.D. when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. According to historians, the Middle Ages began after this significant event.

There were approximately 185 emperors in the Western and Eastern Empire throughout its tumultuous history, some better than others.

The Roman Empire died slowly for many reasons, i.e., greed, political ineptitude, criminality, imperial insanity, murder, immorality, expansion across the globe, far and wide colonization mismanagement, severe political corruption, military campaigns, lead poisoning causing severe debilitations, sexual perversions and depravity, barbaric tribal invasions, and more.

Historians, often writing years and decades after specific emperors had died, with prejudice and often minimal and biased sources, have been considered as the ultimate source of information for that period.

Suetonius wrote in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars (121 A.D.) about Caligula’s (third Roman Emperor) alleged deeds and intentions during his reign (37-41 A.D.).

Caligula planned, derisively perhaps, to make his beloved horse, Incitatus (Fast Moving in Latin), a consul. The equine Incitatus would welcome politicians and patricians to dine with him in a house where servants fed him in a marble stable with an ivory manger and imperial purple blankets. Incitatus was purportedly adorned with a collar of precious gems.

Cassius Dio (155-235 A.D.) wrote that Incitatus was fed oats mixed with gold flakes and Caligula had made him a priest.

These accounts were discredited by some historians who believed that the current emperors were perhaps discrediting previous emperors, or the writers were after more readership indulged by sensationalism. Some historians wrote that perhaps Caligula had intended to provoke the Senate staffed initially by 100 senex (“old men”) from the patrician class, whose jobs were so easy to perform that even a horse could do it.

There is no solid evidence that Incitatus was ever made a consul. The story of Incitatus seems to exemplify political ineptitude.

There is a record via Josephus, writing under his emperor-patron Vespasian, that the “mad” Emperor Caligula tried to have a statue of himself installed in the Temple of Jerusalem in 39 and 40 A.D. Had he not been murdered in 41 A.D., this desecration would have started a war as the Jews would not have taken kindly to such an insult.

The history of the Roman emperors is brutal, as the use of violence was a typical method to obtain and to keep power. For example, the reigns of both Claudius and Caligula had been blood-soaked.

According to the World History Encyclopedia, there were initially 100, then 300 members of the Senate chosen from the patrician class during the 3^rd century B.C. During the reforms of Sulla in 81 B.C., the number increased to 500 senex. Julius Caesar increased the number to 900, some of whom came from non-patrician classes, important individuals from cities. Augustus reduced that number to around 600. Roman Senate - World History Encyclopedia

Roman Senators served for life and their rank “carried certain privileges such as the right to wear a toga with Tyrian purple stripe (latus clavus), a senatorial ring, special shoes, an epithet (later with three ranks: clarissimi, spectabiles, illustres), certain fiscal benefits, and the best seats at public festivals and games.” Senators could not leave Italy without the entire Senate’s approval, could not own large ships, or bid for state contracts. Roman Senate - World History Encyclopedia

How things have changed over the centuries! All it takes today to become one of the 100 powerful Senators, often for life, is an ignorant populace who votes by mail because they might get sick with a virus they are vaccinated and boosted against, swayed by a brainwashing and disingenuous main stream media, the deep pockets of a few elites interested in the election of the candidate they support, and sufficient boxes of ballots “cast” for Democrats by dead Americans and illegals, found miraculously in dark hidden places, and then counted weeks and weeks after election day.

The American Left Marches to Deliver Cultural Marxism

The midterm elections are over. The predicted red tsunami fizzled to a few bubbles in a washtub. The blues have won again. Who chose the color for the conservative party to be red and the socialists to be blue? Was this another ploy to conceal how communist red the Democrat Party had become?

Congress barely returned to the GOP with a razor thin margin and, as such, will predictably do nothing to salvage what is left of the country and of the economy. The Socialist Democrats have been re-elected in most states and their new brethren joined them in Congress.

The Millennials and the Generation Z have turned up to vote, in uncharacteristically high numbers, motivated by the abortion slogan, ‘my right, my body.' They needed a venue besides TikTok to whine about their pronouns, facial rings, tattoos, having to work, and having to pay for their social justice college degrees.

Generation Z voters and Millennials are destroying the west. Their brainwashed, uninformed, and drug-happy individuals drive the narrative in the mainstream media and through outrageous and nonsensical acts of civil disobedience. They are malleable tools/fools in the arsenal of the rich globalists and American elitists, the “useful idiots” the Soviets described artfully.

Older generations, dedicated to their ways of voting, are helping in the destruction because they are swayed by the media, happy to read the communist papers, too tired to search for themselves, or entrenched in their old Democrat Party, not understanding that the Democrat Party had been hijacked long time ago by the Soviet commie activists who had promised that they will turn America into communism through miseducation.

It is important to lefties that abortion, marijuana, and other debauched ways be continued under the Democrat Party who promises perennial welfare and does not shy away from introducing more perversions and immorality into public schools, starting in kindergarten.

As you destroy the western civilization, Millennials and Generation Z, remember that there is no such thing as a free meal and socialist dictators are not very tolerant, and your debauched and crazy lifestyle will come to an end in a truly socialist society.

Gen Z and Millennials, as you are actively destroying your country, screaming in public that you want a better future, free of climate change, and you are tired of capitalism, remember that, once you are at the mercy of the totalitarian government, all the benefits afforded to you by a capitalist economy will cease to exist.

Destroying public property, chaining yourselves on major streets, and gluing yourselves to priceless works of art, while screaming that “the planet is dying, stop using fossil fuels,” you are shooting yourselves in the proverbial foot and worse.

Without fossil fuels, life as you know it, will cease to exist. You will be very cold, very hot, in the dark, unable to go very far, no smart devices, no food, no water, no sanitation, no medical care, no medicines, no cars, everything that you enjoy and makes life worth living will disappear and you will exist in a state of constant misery and pain unlike any you can possibly imagine. You will be just a cog in the government machine, you will own nothing, and be forcibly happy about it.

You are going to have to work in many unpleasant and undesirable jobs and locations, wherever the communist party in charge of the government tells you to go. The TikTok barista whining and crying about how hard his job at Starbucks is, where there are too many customers and not enough help for the baristas, will be history.

As you cry that your human “rights’ are taken away from you and you cannot have an abortion on demand in your neighborhood, and even kill your baby after it is born, remember that dictatorial regimes do not offer abortions at all, and it is harder and more expensive to even find birth control pills. Nobody offers them to you for free and you cannot demand or get any freebies.

Employees at Twitter, Facebook, and Google, while you enjoy safe spaces to find yourselves, yoga, free health food, lattes, free daycare, free gyms, and other obscene benefits at work, remember that socialist regimes do not give you such a work environment, on the contrary, you get bare minimums, and your “rights” are constantly infringed upon and even taken away at the comrade in charge’s whims.

I did not grow up in America, but I experienced the tail end of the seventies when the journalist liars and brazen socialists anchored the five channels we could watch, the same famous media “giants” and personalities who kept us in the dark with their monopoly on public opinion and asymmetric information.

Before the social media arrived in the twenty-first century, we venerated these public opinion shapers, adopting their Democrat Socialism one report and one news hour at a time, while we firmly believed that we had “capitalism,” i.e., free markets, fair elections, and an American culture free of indoctrination by media stars, public schools, and academia.

It is not the social media that caused the fundamental transformation of society, it is the owners and executive of various corporate boards, colleges, schools, who control the platforms, aiding and abetting the “deconstruction of American education” which is now identified as cultural Marxism. People smarter than I am know that, to fix this problem, we must have technology in the right hands. But who decides what the right hands are?

Technology so far, fully in the hands of the “woke and progressive” generations, has stifled debate and divergent opinions through heavy censorship on their social platforms and ad hominem attacks, and has controlled what they deem “disinformation” and “misinformation” by using and citing as reliable sources the same news media empires who had helped shape the Cultural Marxist public opinion in the first place.

Woke-ism is now present in many TV shows, movies, series, and books.

Publishers no longer pretend to print books by conservative or libertarian authors. The bookstores are drowning in woke and liberal authors, on more outrageous topics than one can recount, authors whose ramblings are not worthy of publishing but come in many editions. Democrat Socialist politicians have many books in print, dedicated to their “accomplishments.”

Formerly family-friendly channels have adopted scripts and made movies in which the characters represent racial diversity (even when the original books were written for Caucasian characters), homosexuality, transgenderism, social justice, and other topics dear to the woke generation’s heart.

Ads present non-whites as more intelligent and the “dumb” white people have either disappeared, have a minor role, or a non-speaking part in the ads.

Characters in movies and TikTok video “celebs” sport heavy facial rings, more tattoos than ever, and pink, green, orange, purple, and blue hair.

Unattractive and fat men pretend to be women, models, women sports contestants, and beauty pageant winners. Dishonest reporters of all stripes address the woke pretenders with the pronouns of their fantasy reality, further distorting truth, and making an insane mockery of biology. In this insane world, men can have babies, and women must share a bathroom with men suffering from dysphoria.

The American left marches on to deliver Cultural Marxism. Everything degenerate and immoral goes as America devolves into the days, months, and years of a comatose empire moving into a reality worthy of the twilight zone.