The Only Thing We Learn From History Is That People Do Not Learn From History.

Imagine a world in which political norms have broken down. Senators use bad faith arguments to block the government from getting anything done. An autocrat rigs elections and gives himself complete control over the government. Even stranger, many voters subscribe to the autocrat’s personality cult and agree that he should have absolute control.

Welcome to Rome in the first century B.C.

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Mugin16 · 46-50, M

You forgot to mention civil wars, uprisings by peasants who cannot pay their debts anymore, generals who start wars of aggression to conquer foreign lands and to become rich, former magistrates who got massively into debt to get elected into office (read: bribed the voters) are taxing the population of the provinces to the hilt to pay their debts, slave revolts, and a governing system developed and designed for a city-state breaking down as the city-state has turned into an empire that is now ruling the Mediterrean.