Hopestandard.com carries a comparison between the Roman emperors' way of keeping the populace content and the powers that be in the USA. See what you think. I could not possibly comment ...

It seems the Romans and Michael Moore are right

By Alex Browne
Apr 27 2006

Several years ago, when Michael Moore referred in his Oscar acceptance speech to “weapons of miss distraction” there were as many jeers as cheers.

Time has proven he correctly identified the methodology of corporate/military America, of which Canada – with U.S. ownership of our companies at a staggering high – is now, clearly, a branch plant.

The old Roman idea of distracting a fickle populace with “bread and circuses” has been genetically modified. Our rumblings of discontent are now assuaged with trans-fat foods and video circuses. Less is more? No, more is better.

The result is an electorate that soothes its hungers and boosts its waistlines with super-sized foods, living in monster homes, driving safety-impairing super-sized vehicles, and being buried in super-sized coffins.