Dan Rather's dire warning to America.

[Silver]

Legendary journalist Dan Rather went on another one of his epic analyses of what we just saw transpire tonight during tonight’s “town hall” debate, hammering home just how disturbing the propositions put forth by Republican nominee Donald Trump really are and the threat that he poses to our democracy.

Rather’s words are poetic and nuanced, mixing biting severity with the civilizing admonitions that forged the American journalistic tradition – values that the modern media have abandoned in their ravenous scramble for ratings. We are lucky to have him as a guiding voice during this time of contempt and division.

I am not sure it is possible to truly put into words what we witnessed tonight. This election has long since passed the stage of rationality and reason, the realm of the written page, and into the territory of the heart and spirit, where emotions swirl that we cannot fully distill into coherent sentences and paragraphs. But I will humbly try…

Read further:
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/10/10/de...n-america/

[Minimalist]

Rome was once a proud republic that devolved into a place of barbaric spectacle epitomized by the savagery at the Colosseum.

Just leave the ancient history to historians, Dan.  Rome was an oligarchy masquerading as a republic.

Much like 'Murrica.

[Silver]

Much like 'Murrica.

So he actually is making a valid point?

[Minimalist]

Rome endured over 4 centuries of civil strife between the patricians and the plebians.  That included a couple of outright civil wars.

We mask it behind "campaign contributions."

The Romans were simply more honest than we are.

[Silver]

So your answer is, essentially, "yes".

[Minimalist]

No.  He's far too late.

"I had a sense we could, if we are not vigilant, fall into a similar downward spiral. "

We're already there.  We've been going down the shitter since Nixon.