It's dangerous to make sloppy comparisons like that.

Augustus seized all the levers of power to create the Roman Empire and even developed a cult-like following.

Similarly, claiming there aren't two political camps is sloppy in the current environment.

Corporates and oligarchs are a completely different animal, and they deserve treatment as such.

They are not some homogenous, totalitarian entity: they're more akin to what Rome was before the Empire--a melange of senators fighting about everything while trying to stay rich.

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KaiserPro 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Augustus seized all the levers of power

Octavian was given the levers of power by Julius Caesar. Pompey and Crassus teamed up with Caesar to breakdown the republic. They made huge amounts of cash doing it.

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coliveira 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Even Augustus took a few years to complete his project. In the US this is going quite fast.

	▲	speed_spread 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think we see it happening fast because right now it's just revealing of the power structures that were built over decades.

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dimal 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Dangerous? What??? How on earth is that dangerous? Of all the insane rhetoric being spouted nowadays, making a historical comparison is dangerous?

Can we all please stop calling ideas “harmful” or “dangerous” and just have plain, open debate? That’s what a republic depends on.

	▲	mulmen 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think constantly repeating negativity that undermines faith in institutions and our ability to effect change is harmful because it’s self fulfilling. There. That’s an idea you can debate.