Re:Review of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
by dv_dt on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:27PM
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How should history account for the economic unrest allowing the Gracchi to come to power? It seems that if the overall economic system were not functioning to distribute prosperity widely enough then some sort of chaos would ensue - is it the norm breaking, could the economic instability be a stronger contributing cause? Would the norm breaking even be possible without the lack of access to economic opportunity?
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Re:Review of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
by hannasanarion on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:06PM
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Definitely. In times of peace, prosperity, and contentment, people would be much more harsh on those who want to overturn the liberal democratic order.
When people are feeling desperate, and it's become clear that the system is not working, it's easy for populists to come in and promise to fix all the problems if only you'll let them do away with that pesky free press, and take votes away from those frustrating opposition people, and get rid of the annoying rules about making profit while in office.