A small change, not a flag to salute or die for, but simply a flag without the Union Jack and not a relic of a fading empire.
The electoral college fight will recede and the real war will begin as Trump, untested, learns that governing a fading empire is not like rallying in a football stadium, with only the faithful chanting your name.
Second, the paedo rap had been used before by fading empire to rising power, most notably in the 1930s when Graham Greene accused the Americans of being a nation of Shirley Temple fanciers and ignited the mother and daughter of all libel actions.
"And now," he wrote, "in the desperate spring of 1940, with the reins of power at last firm in his grasp, he resolved to lead Britain and her fading empire in one last great struggle worthy of all they had been and meant, to arm the nation, not only with weapons but also with the mace of honor, creating in every English breast a soul beneath the ribs of death".
America -- the new Rome, this fading empire -- has no room for truth tellers in the "mainstream".
LVIV, UKRAINE — For this Hapsburg city, with its checkered history in now faded empires, a new day of reckoning is approaching.
In at least this one area of endeavor, Americans are still colonials, living in thrall to the great faded empire.
In boarding the most prominent vessel of the British fleet, an emblem of its soon-to-fade empire, the "jolly savages" showed up the British Empire while also making fun of an Abyssinia where royalty was only an illusion.
Among aficionados, a field is a 'pitch.' Cleats are 'boots.' A scoreless game is a 'nil-nil.' A team is a 'side,' and a side is plural — as in 'Chelsea have won the Premiership.' In at least this one field of endeavor, Americans are still colonials, living in the thrall of the great faded empire.
