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We simp for Rome cause the imagery makes us hard. Simple as. I'd probably be joining that military junta if I actually.lived then, too.
In the brutal military junta's defense, semi-meritocratic military junta > aristocratic monarchy
It's just not, y'know, democracy. Except on the local level, where Roman assemblies in Roman coloniae retained much of the power that had been lost in the city of Rome itself.