This is the Friends of Mr. Debating Society.

I'm John Batchett with Michael Flehose, Germanicus.

I am Gaius, where in Londonium it is a near-summer day in Londonium.

The centurions in their families are shopping in the marketplace.

There's rumor of epidemics, so we haven't been to the theater for several weeks.

Nonetheless, we entertain ourselves with history, both here and the first century AD, where

things are very stable and happy here in Londonium, where far from Rome and the intrigues of

Rome.

At the same time, we observe how the empire has survived the first century, and it'll have

a very good second century.

We know this, we can see it.

But there are suggestions that in the 21st century, the United States of America and its

allies are coming into a period which is going to resemble the end of the Julian Claudian

reign and the Interregnum, the year of four emperors, before the Flavian dynasty emerged.

How?

Right now the headlines are routine in the Washington Post and the New York Times, two newspapers

that are most representative of the court in Washington, the court of the Republicans,

the court of Democrats, the court of the Senate.

The headlines say repeatedly in various forms, America is not happy if the 24 election

is Trump and Biden.

America is unhappy with Biden, America is unhappy with Trump.

The two men leading make everybody sigh and nobody wants to vote.

...