"warning about decline"
By robblu (https://pastebin.com/u/robblu)

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Created on: Wednesday 29th of June 2016 10:06:31 PM CDT
Retrieved on: Saturday 31 of October 2020 03:33:17 AM UTC


In 376 AD, a large band of Gothic refugees arrives at the Empire’s Danube frontier, asking for asylum. In a complete break with established Roman policy, they were allowed in, unsubdued. They revolted, and within two years had defeated and killed the emperor Valens – the one who had received them. What Valens had done was the Christian thing to do, but it had never been the Roman thing to do. Valens has his modern counterpart in George W. Bush. For in May 2006, Republican senators at Bush’s urging joined Democrats to offer a blanket amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens and permit US businesses to go abroad and bring in foreign workers. Senators had been shocked by the millions of Hispanics marching in America’s cities under Mexican flags. And as was the emperor Valens, President Bush was hailed for his compassion and vision.