@SwiftOnSecurity Sometimes I think the American Revolution is one of the worst things that ever happened to the world. History is absolutely loaded down with examples of revolutions that resulted in incredibly repressive, violent and/or chaotic regimes. But the famous one is the one that resulted in the world's (current) most powerful state.

So people think "Hey, it worked for them, we'll have a bit of that!" without realising that the odds are very much not in their favour on things turning out well.