Yes it wasn’t pretty, but to their eyes it worked.

As a system for governing 330 teeming, factious, armed millions it’s efficacy remains to be seen. Eastern Europe had Stalin’s armies. The Eastern European crew survived Hitler and Stalin along with two world wars and the Revolutions and disorders between those wars.

The American crew went to college then into government. There’s a lot of townies in America, the mere appearance of which throws them into hysteria; that’s not a good portend for the future.