> Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command,

> Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses “panem et circenses“, Juvenal 100AD