I'm getting kind of tired of the endless election pontification, especially from people who don't really reflect the electorate. We're not overly complicated people. What if the whole things is that Trump sent everyone checks when he was president? What if they just want to get paid? What if it's just that simple? What if that's what "the economy" means to most people?

Seriously though, we've always imagined ourselves the neo Rome. And frankly it's tracking, the Republic going down in graft and mass corruption while politicians promise payments to the voters in exchange for power, until one more venal guy just takes over and gets killed.

What about that does not look incredibly likely? We've already got the right style of buildings in the capital, practically like someone knew all along.

I have occasionally wondered what the message was in making the governments so neo Roman. It's not subtle, it's never been subtle.

But I guess the checks were nice. Oh, also the whole stop the other faction from paying people corruptly just so you can start the bribes again when you take office, so Roman.

Yes yes, I read roman history like a mid 30s white boy. Maybe that actually does make me a bit trans.

@quinn 1500 years of empire to come then?

(40s white boy here)