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Blah blah Blah, Fall of Rome, republics evaporating into tyrannies, Rome falling into an empire and anarchy because it doesn't have a counterpoint to its enemies basically using the 4th branch of government, media, to brainwash the public into electing their enemies into total power... blah blah blah.
Republic has gotten away from us and we're in the "bread and circus" phase until hyperinflation sets in and people start exchanging lifetimes of wealth for a loaf of bread and saying: "this isn't supposed to happen in first world countries... right? How could our enemies in the ottoman empire have taken all of our thrones without a single person noticing?