never understand
how nation suffered themselves
to be cast so low
If we study the history of Rome and Carthage, we can understand what happened and why.
It is not difficult to understand and form an intelligent view about the three Punic Wars; but if mortal catastrophe should overtake the British nation and the British Empire, historians a thousand years hence will still be baffled by the mystery of our affairs.
They will never understand how it was that a victorious nation, with everything in hand, suffered themselves to be brought low and to cast away all that they had gained by measureless sacrifice and absolute victory.
Winston Churchill on March 24, 1938 in a speech delivered in the House of Commons.
Looking back at this era … the Trump Age … the Lost Age … the time when a victorious nation, with everything in hand, suffered themselves to be brought low and to cast away all that they had gained by measureless sacrifice and absolute victory, it will be hard to understand.
Yet, that is what I am hoping for.
That we yet arrive at an time where we look back … and wonder … something went wrong here.
Lets hope its more of bump than a stumble and not a full face plant.
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