10-07-2024, 11:51 PM
This post was last modified 10-08-2024, 12:03 AM by IdeomotorPrisoner. 
(10-07-2024, 12:56 PM)Anna Wrote: And what's wrong with polarization? It's natural in every democracy.
Sure, but sometimes it gets too zealous to impersonate the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. Rome was a democracy for about 500 years. Then Octavian made Rome great again and it was autocratic dictators from then on.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org...ic-empire/
Quote:Though the Roman Republic stood for several centuries, tensions within the government began to tear it apart. Civil wars started between groups with different loyalties, which brought about the transformation of the republic into an empire.
Pick your platitude. All roads leading to refusing to learn from history. Polarization has a point of no return.
Last time it was over owning people, this time it seems to be over transmigrants eating people's pets. And did you know Kamala Harris supports giving murder convicts sex changes? Every Trump ad in my state is transgender or migrant obsessed.
While I'm not saying Trump represents a Roman-esque turn to autocracy and dictatorship, he seems most likely to appoint a horse Secretary of the Interior. The agenda he's fighting (DEI, Globalism) is detested, and non of his most ardent supporters are likely to accept a scenario where he loses this time.
Plus 2026 is our semiquincentennial and...
Quote:According to most historical studies, the average lifespan of an empire is around 250 years