Are we throwing away Nancy Pelosi now because she wasn't enthusiastic about Kamala?

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54. You do realize that in no way reflects the reality

Of Rome's government vs that of the US. You're confusing cultural issues with government.

They are not the same thing. That's your first mistake.

Your second is in thinking there's anything unique in those cultural issues. What you've described about those cultural issues could apply to well, all but a handful of governments throughout history. None of those things you describe are unique or new or exclusive to the US or Rome. They're universal.

Since the dawn of history, every nation has had people thinking things had to get better than they were, whether or not things were bad, overall.

Inequality has always existed everywhere there are nation-states--and still does; it's only ever been a matter of degree.

Plagues were as rampant or worse in Italy in 1657 or China's Ming Dynasty in 1633 or England in 1500 or Japan in 735 or Athens in 430BCE or Megidoo in 1350BCE as they were here or in Rome (and that's a very short list of historical plagues).

Propaganda has been around literally forever. Do I need to spell out all of the historical examples of it? Care to guess how much of it came from the Gutenberg printing press, all by itself? The telegraph? The telephone? Radio and TV? How about computers, and then social media? Sure, AI is bad--but it is nothing new in disreputable parties trying to use a recent technological development in an attempt to manipulate and extort and lie to the rest of us for their own gain.

And literally hundreds of countries have broken apart over internal strife since the beginning of time. So that also isn't something unique to Rome or to the US.

Not one bit of any of this is new, really.

You do realize that...right?

Yes, some things these days are not all that great...But, in the end that list of yours has bugger all to do with a comparison between the form of governments of the US v Rome. Which are in no way similar, no matter how much you want to pretend they are. That is a fact.

And that is all that matters.