[Serious] The Rehabilitation of President Richard M. Nixon

[Anomalocaris]

No, peaceful transition of power occurred far more times over a much longer period of time in the Roman republic than in the American democracy.

They sure as hell didn’t use a time machine to get it from us.

American democracy is neither as strong, nor as well constructed, nor as pioneering, as those who dearly wishes to rationalize American exceptionalism would like to believe.

Rome was a Republic that turned into an Empire, which, as an Empire pretended to be a Republic.  In any case, how many civil wars did Rome fight?  How many has the United States fought?

The Roman republic avoided civil war for its first 370 years, about 130 years longer than the United States had existed, much less the 4 score and five the US actually manage open civil war.

United has been turning into an empire as soon as the rival superpower fell leaving the US in hegemonic position.      It took Rome 80 year from gaining hegemonic power over Mediterranean world to her first civil war on the path to toppling traditional Republican distributed power structure, and 170 years before the transition to monarchical empire is complete.   United States is also bidding fair to both it in less.