Indeed.
The proper question to ask is, who is our Marius? Our Sulla? How do the current political situations and customs reflect the situations at the time they took their actions?
The Roman Republic died mainly because there weren’t enough people of character in power to sustain it. The Good Men did nothing.
I don’t know that we’ll get lucky enough have a Sulla or Maurius. We seem have the same corrupt politicians that Republic Rome suffered from, and we seem to the same leveling bastards that fought them. In fact we seem to have a pseudo-Gracchi president...