I know, I'm just giving you a hard time.
Liberal Socialist Democrat Scum simply pops up in Civilization, and multiplies like Fungus, Mushrooms, Cockroaches, Lice, Fleas, Mosquitos and such in a coordinated plan to destroy it.
Your only fault is you didn't step on enough bugs.
And we don't need to go into all the Revolutionary War history here, right?
Even though the bloody colony was more loyalist than rebels.