The Dark Age's Feudal Lords are Today's Elites

Mick Rich
Oct 27

There are many similarities between the Dark Ages in Europe that occurred approximately a thousand years ago and what is occurring today in the United States. Rome unified all of Europe and when the Roman Empire fell, Western Europe was splintered into small fiefdoms that were ill-equipped to address regional challenges of protecting their borders, changes in climate, and the Bubonic Plague pandemic.

Germanic tribes from the east overwhelmed the small fiefdoms. Beginning in the 1300s, Europe experienced the Little Ice Age causing crop and livestock loss that resulted in famine. The fiefdoms were incapable of bringing bring food from the Mediterranean to ease starvation and without scientific knowledge, they blamed and killed their readymade scapegoat, the Jews. The next hundred years brought the Bubonic Plague pandemic. The Jews continued to be persecuted.

America is no longer unified by Washington but is splintered into modern-day fiefdoms: the political elites in Washington, financial and media elites in New York City, entertainment elites in Los Angles, and technical elites in San Francisco. They are all ill-equipped to address the challenges of protecting our borders, changes in climate, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

This year alone, two million people will cross our southern border into the United States overwhelming social services in the non-elite communities while the elites reap the benefits of cheap labor. Changing climate is creating drought in the west resulting in the loss of crops and livestock while the elites focus on gasoline-powered cars. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the failings of the healthcare system while the elites focused on the failings of the American people.

The feudal lords of the Dark Ages ruled over their lands and servants with little concern for anyone other than themselves, just as today's elites. But unlike the servant of the Dark Ages, we choose our leaders, and their fate is not ours. We need a President and Members of Congress who are committed to bringing Americans together, so together we can overcome challenges facing our nation. It is our responsibility to elect a President and members of Congress that are committed to doing both.

We need to address the effects of a changing climate today beginning with water infrastructure while minimizing our impact on the environment with a Carbon Benefit Analysis of all Federal programs. We need a rational immigration policy that limits immigration to what our country can assimilate and immigrants that will obey our laws and contribute to their communities. We need a healthcare system that is responsible to all Americans, while Americans are responsible for their medical choices.

The challenges facing our nation today are minor to what the next generation may face. Our adversaries will be more dangerous as more countries possess nuclear and biological weapons. In 2001 a few Islamic jihadists sacrificed themselves to create a religious war, tomorrow we may see countries attempt to do the same with nuclear or biological weapons. A cooling climate ended a hundred and fifty years ago and now we are in a warming climate. Tomorrow's climate could be even more challenging causing widespread famine and disease. However, the greatest threat Americans may face is a leader abandoning the founding principles of our country while exploiting the differences between us as was done in the Dark Ages.

Let us never forget, "United we stand, divided we fall."