...the decay of trade and industry was not a cause of Rome’s fall. There was a decline in agriculture and land was withdrawn from cultivation, in some cases on a very large scale, sometimes as a direct result of barbarian invasions. However, the chief cause of the agricultural decline was high taxation on the marginal land, driving it out of cultivation. Jones is surely right in saying that taxation was spurred by the huge military budget and was thus ‘indirectly’ the result of the barbarian invasion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_the_fall_of_...
History does not repeat, but it surely does rhyme.
No one with a clue is worried about anything "abrupt". Rebellion is literally impossible.
Did they put guns on Big Dog since 2011? What's changed? Good old UK had to stop the press reporting on it they were so flustered.
Your example proves my point. There is nothing to fear from the poor. They are completely checked and have no access to power whatsoever.