Who Were the Sea Peoples?

 The Romans did not have to ideologically defeat every culture they brought into their empire. They only required that they acknowledged the empire's sovereignty. Americans should really just acknowledge that their government rules an empire, and the government folks might admit it as well. Then the question would become, "How can we rule this empire most prudently and justly?" And at that point we'd be having a genuine discussion.

If Marx had modestly said, "Hey, this class business I'm talking about is one useful way of understanding society," he would be undeniably among the greatest of sociologists. (For instance, as Musa al-Gharbi has shown, wokeness is largely a way to distract from class privilege by throwing the focus onto race, sex, gender, orientation, etc.) Unfortunately, instead he claimed, "This class business I'm talking about is the only useful way of understanding society." And thus inspired many of the great atrocities of the 20th century. He could have been a great sociologist if he had not wanted to be the messiah.