HOW REPUBLICS FALL:

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The process becomes the punishment. It’s what happens when a civilization mistakes restraint for virtue, aggression for evil, and procedural obedience for courage.

Eventually, the men who can’t wield the sword discover they can wield the law against those who do. And the cowards who would never stand before an enemy become the judges of those who must.

“It is backwards. But above all, it is unsustainable.”