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Originally Posted by garce
As did the Mesopotamians, the Greeks, the Romans, the British, the Gauls, the Macedonians, the Persians, the Japanese, the Chinese (oh, wait a minute...), the Portugeuse, the Dutch, the French, the Germans, the Italians (wait, that's Rome again), the Russians, the Mongols, the Canadians (I just made that up...), the Egyptians, the Huns (Damn. Mongols again? WTF? Who can keep this shit straight...)
Most of them survived. They're just not worth shit anymore.
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Actually, of the Greeks only some states were republics and they didn't last long. The Roman republic lasted ~450 years. The Venetian Republic (to hear some tell it) lasted over 1000. San Marino has lasted ~1600.
Large diverse nations as opposed to small homogeneous populations always collapse as republics. The collapse is heralded by a professional army and police, fiscal irresponsibility, multicultural infighting (sorry, it is true), elitism into "noble" and "warrior" classes, loss of social mores, the decline of shame, corruption, shamanism, and finally a persistent enemy.
America will turn into a feudal society with a ruling class rather than a king, I'd imagine. We're already well on the way.