All empires do this (when they are falling)

“When it looks bad, they say, it is bad, and that badness could be contagious, so keep away. Unruly and dangerous, like an uprising that needs to be quashed.
All empires do this, especially when they start to fail. They blame their subjects for how they look, and they force them to work harder, condemning them as unclean and unsafe.”
 
As I wrote in the previous blog post, there is no greater horror than a true story. What we are witnessing is horrific but cling onto hope that we have seen cycles like this before; there is a boom-and-bust tendency about empires, and we will see change in the right direction, given time.
 
Rainbow Warrior: The Tale of Ares, The Battle-Lustful Son
BB Clifford