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Did the Romans care that the Senate and their patrons destroyed the legitimacy of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC? No, they just moved on and allowed them to create the Roman Empire which lasted for another 400 years.
I like to think we've moved on from antiquity, but the mentality of the average American is making me question this. As the saying goes, history repeats itself...
The Roman proletariat and serfs got some important concessions that improved their standard of living between the end of Sulla's dictatorship and Octavian becoming emperor (and more before that which were undone by Sulla). I think that's a pretty big difference because the burgerreich just keeps making life worse for its workers and they somehow keep lapping up the fascism.