BREAD, CIRCUSES & BOMBS - DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE :Satisfying the crude motivations of the ignorant peasants (cheap food and entertainment) is how Roman politicians bought votes and retained power. Free wheat, circus games, and feeding Christians to lions kept the commoners from focusing on politicians pillaging and wasting the empire’s wealth.

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The rise and fall of the American Empire, like Rome the similarities are obvious