"A rose by any other name..." America may never have promoted the name of "Empire" but all the signs of one have been there for decades. Up until just a few years ago, we had a powerful military, outposts in many other countries, global influence, a dominant currency, changed regimes of other countries at will, and so on. We were pushed beyond our Republic status by grifters and power mad politicians, and We The People fell asleep somewhere around the 1960s and let it happen.

All that changed, though, in recent years, as our government became bloated, over-regulated and nameless unelected bureaucrats grabbed more and more power to run our lives and the lives of people abroad.

Call it what you will, but Empires do collapse, just like Democracies. But a Republic has a better chance of survival. I pray for the restoration of the American Republic and isolationism, nationalism, and America First.