Why Do People Keep Trying to Assassinate Caesar?

I’m confused, maybe someone can help me. This is like the third assassination attempt on Julius Caesar, but things are going great in Rome. The value of silver is strong, the liberti/bad homines immigration is under control, and we’ve bounced back from the bubonic pandemic.

So why do people keep trying to assassinate our leader?!

I heard one person say it’s because he’s trying to seize power from the Senate and become an all-powerful dictator, but like, just because he refused to concede power when his term as governor ended and then sent his military across the Rubicon, essentially doing an insurrection on Rome, doesn’t indicate any of that. If that were the case, wouldn’t the Senate say something? Haven’t heard anything from Brutus or Cassius yet, so that’s a non-starter.

Some are also pointing to the preemptive strike on Carthage and how it doesn’t seem to have clearly defined objectives or a coherent exit strategy, and could potentially ignite Punic War III. But taking out an adversary’s enriched trebuchet program and stockpile of intercontinental ballista munitions is imperative to the safety of the entire world, so even though Caesar seems to be making it up as he goes along as an excuse to blow stuff up, we should still just trust our Commander in Chief. He wouldn’t lie to us, even though he constantly lies to us.

Then, of course, there’s threatening to conquer Erik the Red for some reason, but come on, he’s just talking trash. We need to judge Caesar by his actions, not by what he says, and also not by most of his actions either. It’s totally fine for the most powerful man in the world to talk smack like that. Totally fine and normal.

Now, I do think that whole thing with the enforcement patrol in Macedonia may have gotten out of hand, but let’s be real, there was no way to predict that sending a violent, untrained militia of legionaries into a volatile protest would lead to a fatal stabbing of a citizen. Nor could you predict it the second time either. I mean, come on.

Sure, one could also make the economic argument. Inflation is devaluing silver, he’s gutting finance to healers and apothecaries, his corrupt policies only help his aristocrat friends, his tariffs on the Silk Road are backfiring and pushing the expenses down to local agora merchants and traders, and his corruption is creating extreme poverty among the lower and middle castes as well as low global confidence in our Republic, but that’s just how this stuff works. We should trust him on economic issues; he’s a businessman. After all, he did build Caesar’s Palace.

Also, just to be clear, I certainly don’t condone political violence, especially if it’s against someone on my side. I would prefer to just have him exiled. I’m sure that would deter his followers.

Of course, the likeliest explanation for all of this is that it’s those obnoxious, radical communist senators trying to bring down Caesar so they can seize power for themselves.I can’t think of a single other explanation that makes sense. Still, I have to ask: Why do they keep sending the most incompetent people? Like, how does every assassin keep missing and then immediately get caught? What’s that about?