"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Fall of the Republic
“It behooves us to know the reasons the republic died ... In eerie and haunting ways, Americans at this very moment are living through a repetition of Rome’s republican decay.”
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The "republic" was always a fantasy; it never lived in the first place. It was built on the notion of representative government, a complete sham and falsehood.
True. But such as it was, it wasn't as bad as what it later became.
Gibbons "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire"