Don’t try to push an analogy too far. Caesar is an expression, an idea, not Gaius Julius Caesar. He is what comes when a republic has gone rotten…if the citizens of the republic are just a little lucky. And, “God smiles favorably on fool, drunkards, and the United States.” We were lucky from the beginning.

You may have missed this; the plebians are currently revolting against the elites. And, no, they didn’t actually agree on what it meant to be Roman; that had disappeared in the Social War. Neither did the actual citizens of Rome any longer share a set of values or ideas; they hated each other’s guts.

We haven’t fought the wars of caesar yet so complaints about not winning them are, at best, premature.

Mind, we are actually going to have to kill a lot of people. 5 million? 50 million? Somewhere in that range.

The premises do not apply. In Caesar’s time, Romans still understood and agreed upon what “Rome” was. Citizenship still meant something, because the Roman legions zealously guarded the borders of the Republic against foreign invaders. The plebeians revolted against an entrenched elite that refused to listen to them, but both the plebs and the patricians at least agreed on what it meant to be “Roman”. They shared the same values, the same worldview, and the same blood. Rome would not permit mass migration and the devaluation of its citizenship for another 3 centuries at least.

And we must always remember that Caesar actually WON his wars.

Not a single one of those premises holds true of America today. Who exactly is going to step up to be this new Caesar, given the ossified and largely disconnected political class, and the hopeless state of America’s military? America has never won a real war since 1945 – and arguably only won that one in the Pacific. The 404 War has proven clearly and conclusively that America simply does not know what it means to fight a serious war, and therefore does not have the officers in place willing or able to cross the Potomac. That is before we get to the fact that its people cannot even agree on what “America” actually IS.

America will be extremely fortunate to get a Caesar, instead of simply suffering a catastrophic collapse and breakup, like the old USSR, but much worse and vastly more violent.

And, in mathematical terms, “extremely lucky” translates into “highly improbable”.

Caesar, where art thou? Getting a new lease on life for America of a few centuries in exchange for abandoning dumbocracy doesn’t sound like a bad deal.

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