gregory rush
Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read

My favorite suspect is this guy, far less known to modern cultural history, probably because he was a whole lot better at hiding his most creative efforts or scaring scribes into just not recording them. I’ve read into his life history, and WoW! the bold and intricate machinations he was willing to try.

Such as, in his initial effort to break into “public life”, conniving to have a popular Senator adopt him as a “son”, even though he was actually older than his benefactor, which was perfectly legal then. More strange laws came & went before and during his reign, all meant to “grease the wheels” for him and his cronies.

Does his expert pursuit of every opportunistic advantage sound at all familiar? This below is from Wikipedia, where it takes many pages to recount just some of his uncountable “diabologies” in pursuit of ultimate power, and then more. Trump “could not even carry his water”.

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Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix[1] (/ˈsʌlə/; c. 138 BC — 78 BC), known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He had the distinction of holding the office of consul twice, as well as reviving the dictatorship. Sulla was a skillful general, achieving numerous successes in wars against different opponents, both foreign and Roman. He was awarded a grass crown, the most prestigious Roman military honor, during the Social War.

Sulla’s dictatorship came during a high point in the struggle between optimates and populares, the former seeking to maintain the Senate’s oligarchy, and the latter espousing populism. In a dispute over the eastern army command (initially awarded to Sulla by the Senate but withdrawn as a result of Gaius Marius’s intrigues) Sulla unconstitutionally marched his armies into Rome and defeated Marius in battle.

In 81 BC, after his second march on Rome, he revived the office of dictator which had been inactive since the Second Punic War over a century before, and used his powers to enact a series of reforms to the Roman Constitution, meant to restore the primacy of the Senate and limit tribune power. Sulla’s ascension was also marked by political purges in proscriptions. After seeking election to and holding a second consulship, he retired to private life and died shortly after.

Sulla’s decision to seize power — ironically enabled by his rival’s military reforms that bound the army’s loyalty with the general rather than to Rome — permanently destabilized the Roman power structure. Later leaders like Julius Caesar would follow his precedent in attaining political power through force.[2]

Just pray to Fortuna we never see HIS equal again!

(“Social War”; only if we have to…)

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    Been there done that over the river through the woods up the creek and under the weather ‘round the bend & back again now here doing this.