8 Parallels Between Contemporary America And The Fall Of The Roman Republic

[FarCenter]

1 -- Staggering Increase in the Cost of Elections, with Dubious Campaign Funding Sources:

2 -- Politics as the Road to Personal Wealth:

3 -- Continuous War:

4 -- Foreign Powers Lavish Money/Attention on the Republic's Leaders:

5 -- Profits Made Overseas Shape the Republic's Internal Policies:

6 -- Collapse of the Middle Class:

7 -- Gerrymandering:

8 -- Loss of the Spirit of Compromise:

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[slackmaster]

1. Bread and circuses

[Exultant Democracy]

2. GWB=Nero

[FarCenter]

3. In that case, we have already fallen, since Nero was an Emperor 54 to 68 AD.

The Republic ended by 27 BC when Octavian became Ceasar Augustus.

[Exultant Democracy]

5. I get -two points for attentive reading

[pscot]

4. That was Imperial Rome

The republic ended when Augustus took over.