Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on avoiding the fall…

Edward Gibbon, author of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, offers a light bulb conservative culturists might appreciate.  It’s his observation that Rome’s demise was coached in five realities.  One was the undermining of the dignity of the home and family.  That’s definitely happening in America.  Another was spending public money for bread and circuses for the masses.  People as non-productive pets don’t make good nation builders.  Pleasure and immorality became job one in Rome, as it seems to be here. Rome built a wondrous military but neglected the home front.  Pretending to police the world when we can’t control our own borders mirrors Rome’s model.  Their final miscue? They lost their moral compass.  Refusing to learn from others sets us up for avoidable mistakes.  Solutions for avoiding Rome’s end are found in laying aside the assumption we’re exempt from failure and reversing course on these five paths to oblivion. 

I’m Dr. Carl Mumpower and you just spent a minute with a candid conservative…