Seriously, did not expect this much easily comparable shit coming out of the mouths of elites. It’s the same exact rhetoric used by conservatives and other anti-communist mouthpieces today.
I never disagreed that Amerika was Rome 2.0., but wow did I not know the extent of it. First tragedy, then farce.
Polybius and Cicero really be out here saying “we should take the best of both capitalism AND socialism” in the years of our lord ~200-40 B.C.
I’ve seen this problem too in this sort of groups where they pretend religion has nothing to do with class nor that sacerdocy is in power with any sort of religion. And yes, everything you said. Libs and reactionaries in general will try to suffocate themselves the day they realize Marx and communists breath air too.