It's amazing how old our problems are. By that I mean how much they come up throughout history.

- Who counts as a citizen

- Who has the land

- Who gets welfare/benefits

- Who is anathema

- Who mediates power (bureaucrats? nobility? monarch? people?)

It's like a laundry list of issues that bagged ancient Rome, enlightenment France and late Tsarist Russia.

EDIT: It blew my mind when I actually started to read up on the French Revolution and found that besides what to do with the Monarchy, the issue that really divided them was Universal Manhood Suffrage. For years I had been fed the vague notion that some quasi-social-utopian issues were at the heart of it. But they really just couldn't agree on whether all men should be allowed to vote.