Stefan MolyneuxVerified account

Go study history....more importantly facts...geez

Which part of history, Greece and Rome falling into hyper pluralism and political violence? Or democratic Germany and Italy descending into dictatorship and political violence? Or do you mean more recently as America descends into violence?

You have to give more specific examples....too vague.

Ok, let's zoom in on Ancient Rome, one of the first democracies. This is going to be a thread. 58 BCE was the year Gaius Julius Caesar and Bibulus took the office of consol. Caesar led a reformist party at the time. Simultaneously, two leaders of the anti reformist conservatives

...Pompey and Crassus were trying to undercut the other and take control of their party by means of violence (think Bernie V Hillary) Caesar made friends with both separately, then eventually brought them together. They formed a group called the First Triumvirate.

With this new order of high ranking politicians nothing could stop the three of them. Cato, a popular conservative, was thrown in jail. His son Bibulus, a consol at the time (the highest elected office in rome) was beaten within an inch of his life, covered in shit, and sent home

Pompey and Crassus still hired violent gangs to beat each other's supporters. All these men kept up the image of political conflict while writing every bill that was accused that year. Eventually Crassus died on campaign, and Caesar and Pompey went to war, and it led to the rise

Good thing we are a republic, huh?