Indeed, history is a remarkable thing—it tends to repeat itself: Naira Zohrabyan

BNP MP Naira Zohrabyan wrote on her Facebook page: "What a great actor is dying." With this exclamation, in the year 68, Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide by cutting his own throat. Nero was the first populist who amused and humiliated the plebeians, leading even his teachers, intellectuals, and aristocrats to death to gain their favor.

If you remember, Nero even killed his own mother and then staged a Roman performance in front of the plebeians, in which he himself acted. The plebeians deified Nero because he claimed to be one of them, asserting that everyone in Rome was a Nero. However, one day, due to the plebeians, Rome burned, and they blamed Nero, believing he had set fire to the city, watching it from a height while playing the lyre.

Although the facts suggest otherwise—that Nero wasn’t even in Rome the day of the great fire—the plebeians needed someone to blame, and they designated the number one populist of Rome, who was preoccupied with incessant demagoguery and a populism that had become distasteful instead of addressing the vital issues of the Roman citizens.

P.S. By the way, history is a remarkable thing—it tends to repeat itself.