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Lessons in the Decline of Democracy From the Ruined Roman Republic
A new book argues that violent rhetoric and disregard for political norms was the beginning of Rome’s end
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Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. (Wikimedia Commons)
By Jason Daley
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
comparisons to ancient Rome were common. And to this day, Rome, whose 482-year-long Republic, bookended by several hundred years of monarchy and 1,500 years of imperial rule, is still the longest the world has seen.


Aspects of our modern politics reminded University of California San Diego historian Edward Watts of the last century of the Roman Republic, roughly 130 B.C. to 27 B.C. That’s why he took a fresh look at the period in his new book Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny. Watts chronicles the ways the republic, with a population once devoted to national service and personal honor, was torn to shreds by growing wealth inequality, partisan gridlock, political violence and pandering politicians, and argues that the people of Rome chose to let their democracy die by not protecting their political institutions, eventually turning to the perceived stability of an emperor instead of facing the continued violence of an unstable and degraded republic. Political messaging during the 2018 midterm elections hinged on many of these exact topics.

Though he does not directly compare and contrast Rome with the United States, Watts says that what took place in Rome is a lesson for all modern republics. “Above all else, the Roman Republic teaches the citizens of its modern descendants the incredible dangers that come along with condoning political obstruction and courting political violence,” he writes. “Roman history could not more clearly show that, when citizens look away as their leaders engage in these corrosive behaviors, their republic is in mortal danger.”


Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy.
Kinda like what Dems and Xiden are doing, eh?
 
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Your dad was lucky to get any meat at all.

Towards the end of the U.S. civil war the soldiers were eating boot soup and fighting barefoot.

when the war went through Kentucky both armies stripped the thriving Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill so bad that it was abandoned and it never recovered. Seed corn, breeding stock, everything. When my mother was a child there the farmers were using the beautiful Shaker buildings for hay barns. I grew up sleeping in one of beds that was salvaged from the village after the war. It’s back at Shaker Village now, donated along with several other beautiful Shaker pieces that were salvaged after the war.

the public schools should teach the truth about the horrors of the U. S. civil war.
 
The Hajies probably put one over on him and gave him the ass meat. LOL

Not funny, not funny at all.
He said the British treated them decently, when the camp was turned over to the Arabs they got whatever died for food. Sometimes rotted.
 
View attachment 3291864 Your dad was lucky to get any meat at all.

Towards the end of the U.S. civil war the soldiers were eating boot soup and fighting barefoot.

when the war went through Kentucky both armies stripped the thriving Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill so bad that it never recovered. When my mother was a child there the locals used all the beautiful Shaker buildings for hay barns.

He was and he would tell you he was lucky that he lived and was able to move to the US and beome an American.
 
Not funny, not funny at all.
He said the British treated them decently, when the camp was turned over to the Arabs they got whatever died for food. Sometimes rotted.
Well rotting meat does tend to taste nasty. It's didn't think it was a horrible situation. Everyone else was joking about the camel I just thought you were following suit. I apologize corn offending you!
 
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