[IronJack]

Because some people, enough people, have read history and know what happens after a republic has evolved and run its course as an empire, with all of the amassing of government power and bureaucracy that entails, and begins to direct that power inward towards its own people as it begins to run out of treasure.

Bears repeating ... at the top of your lungs from every rooftop in this fair land.

[T-Bird45]

There's the nub of the problem because so few have read and understood the cycle of history. The oblivious crowd then turns to ridicule and labeling that which they never will understand, attempting to incite the clueless.