The CCP considers the Taiping Rebellion a precursor of their revolution and the rebel leaders and their supporters its own precursors. And we are concerned about our 1787 Constitution and the fall of the Roman Republic in 200 to 100 BC and of the Roman Empire five hundred years later. There are lessons to be learned from history for everyone. I suggest the Storm before the Storm by, Moe Duncan aboutd how lhings went wrong in the Roman Republic. All too familiar.