> It is hard to know where this is leading. Is it? Tacitus, Livy, Suetonius, Marcellinus, Plutarch say otherwise. TLDR: As long as citizens think they have s

> It is hard to know where this is leading. Is it? Tacitus, Livy, Suetonius, Marcellinus, Plutarch say otherwise. TLDR: As long as citizens think they have something to lose [1], their fear will be used against them by the Praetorian guard, all the way to the Crisis of the Third Century and subsequent dissolution of the empire. --------- [1] We are all going to die no more than once, with no luggage allowed at checkout. What is there to lose?