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The Brothers Gracchi - V: The Final Fall - Extra History (Patreon)

Published:
2016-09-02 07:32:16
Edited:
2018-05-15 01:49:59
Imported:
2022-01

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Democracy does not survive these things.





But wait, where's Walpole? Well... this series is not over. Not exactly. Stay tuned for a special episode next week where we talk about the often-overlooked man who set the groundwork for all the Gracchi Brothers success, ambitions... and disastrous fate.

P.S. NINJA EDITED!

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The Brothers Gracchi - V: The Final Fall - Extra History

The Senate stole credit for all Gaius's proposals, and stole his popular support. Once he failed to win re-election for tribune, the Senate repealed his reforms. Gaius organized a protest, but the Senate brought it down with armed force and killed Gaius. Not a century later, the Republic would fall. (--More below) Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Learn about the war with Carthage that fueled Rome's early expansion: http://bit.ly/2aXEE5m Play games with us on Extra Play! http://bit.ly/WatchEXP Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator ____________ Gaius made a series of proposals to ease the strains on the poor people in Rome, such as new Roman colonies to ease overcrowding or renting public land to the people. The Senate, led by a man named Livius Drusus, decried him for pandering, only to implement those ideas themselves, take all the credit, and make sure that Gaius got to have no involvement with the administration of these popular public programs. Public support drained from Gaius, and he struggled to find a comeback. When he ran for a third term as tribune, he lost. With Gaius no longer a threat, the Senate started repealing all of the forms he'd fought for. Gaius organized a mob to protest these repeals, but one of his supporters got in a fight with a Senatorial supporter and killed him. The Senate seized this opportunity to declare martial law the next day. In response, Gaius planned a peaceful occupation of the Aventine Hill. The Senate sent representatives to negotiate with him, but they demanded Gaius and his closest supporters give themselves up, and his supporters refused. With no resolution in sight, the Senatorial faction had archers begin to fire into the crowd. Gaius and his supporters fled, but he did not escape: Gaus was caught and captured, his head taken for a bounty and his body thrown into to the Tiber River. The Senate congratulation itself for defeating him by building a temple to Concord, but an anonymous citizen graffiti tagged it as "The Work of Mad Discord." A deep rift had been opened, and the Republic never managed to close it. The reforms proposed by the Gracchi were right and necessary, but extreme factions, fearmongering, a rhetoric of violence, and abuse of the letter of the law all deteriorated the democracy that held Rome together. Less than a century after Gaius falls, so does the Roman Republic. ____________ ♪ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♪ Get the outro music here! http://bit.ly/23isQfx *Music by Sean and Dean Kiner: http://bit.ly/1WdBhnm

Comments

Anonymous

I would have thought tired ninjas would be less effective at stealth.

Anonymous
>>2451255

Depends how many of them there are. You know - conservation of ninjitsu and all that. One tired ninja will still be more effective than 10 well rested ones, because the one tired ninja-editor will get all the ninjitsu instead of having to spread it around. (but seriously - good episode was good)

Jim McGeehin

This corruption isn't anything to ignore, the senatorial class in Rome had become widely corrupt by this point with positively palatial houses. The senators had enacted a self-preserving power society, which in turn, fostered resentment from the population. This story is repeated countless times, from the Gracchi reforms all the way to the Arab Spring. Corruption and contempt from the ruling class leads to the rise of dissatisfaction and demagougery. The Brothers Gracchi used their veto power to essentially force their agenda, inviting backlash. The reforms of the army would end up putting private professional troops into the hands of political strongmen, to which autocracy is a natural conclusion. All governmental systems have their weaknesses, and democracy's is corruption.

Anonymous

Thank you!

Anonymous

Damn edit ninjas. Good thing the team is taking a break. Gonna have to fumigate the whole page to get rid of them before we're infested.

Anonymous
>>2452056

And speaking of repeating history, notice any similarities with the current American culture...?

Anonymous

I say Go! Be stealthy! And take a much needed break. * Kitty Hugs!! *

Anonymous

Nice work! Another great series. By the way, I'm a political activist, and I would love to research and write a series for you that teaches about the history of democracy, perhaps of Athens in particular. I don't want anything in return, only to be able to contribute. Let me know what you think.

Jason Youngberg

Wow. This is why we need to study history. Anyone who doesn't see the parallels with the USA recently hasn't been paying attention. Let's hope we can learn from the past and avoid repeating it.

Porcupine

What democracy doesn't survive is those necessarily few entrusted with the "-cracy" part failing to care about anything other than their own desires, in particular about what happens with the "demos" part. Everything else that happens after that is nothing but consequences...