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I. FOUR STEPS TO THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC 133-27 BC
1.
THE RISE OF POPULAR TRIBUNES, 133-121 BC, two brothers, Ti. And C. Sempronius Gracchus exploited the power of the plebeian tribuneship to seize power in Rome. They essentially used their
sacrosanctitas to veto all other public activity in the city in order to force the senate and the magistrates to focus on their own political agendas. They tried to restore order to the military by reclaiming public land and putting landless poor citizens back on land. C. Gracchus also attempted to grant Italian allies Roman citizen status. Both men were killed with their political followings through urban mob violence fomented by the aristocracy.
(sounds like we are around here)
2. THE RISE OF PRIVATE ARMIES. When the oligarchy failed to resolve the military problem, Roman generals, specifically C. Marius (consul 106, 104-100 BC) and L. Cornelius Sulla (consul 88, dictator 82-79 BC), recruited private armies more loyal to themselves than to the state. In addition to the draft, they recruited landless poor citizens by offering them bounties and land upon discharge. The soldier's status as Roman or allied mattered little to these generals either, both of whom made extensive grants of citizenship to allied forces. Ultimately, the two men came to blows in 88 BC in the midst of the Social War and the Asian rebellion induced by Mithradates. So violent were popular feelings that Sulla was able to persuade his field army in southern Italy to march on the city of Rome to expel Marius and his followers. So began the first Civil War and the gradual transference of soldiers’ loyalties from the laws of the state to the persons of their commanding officers. Sulla ultimately prevailed against both Mithradates and the Marian element in Italy (Marius having died in 86 BC), and attempted to impose a reactionary political reform on Rome as dictator (
Dictator rei publicae constituendae = Dictator for the purpose of restoring the Republic).
(What will likely happen when our so called leaders fuck everything up with their shitty plans. So you know stage 2) Long and short of it is the republic has a 10 year period to reform, if we fail we got about 30 years of fuckery by our current elites until they fuck things to hell. Then we get a civil war, then a dictator then an even more brutal civil war.
Then after progressiveness has fucked all of the things the single most regressive person in 300 years looks around takes over and turns back the clock and then we get an empire. The progressives lose everything, and people will look back and realize all of this could have been prevented if they just compromised with the populists.
But they never do at this stage, maybe its an ego thing, maybe its a power thing but at this stage most countries powerful fuck up everything.