Empowerment through populism, huh? We're supposed to cheer along for Bread and circuses? Adventures in the later Roman Empire? Really? “… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses” (Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81)