“We’re all just cavemen throwing spears at the other village” is not a tremendously helpful or thought-provoking insight, no matter how much truth there is to it.

Government policy is definitely not some illusory construct no matter how poorly the public comprehends or interacts with it.

Neo-Confederacy. The slaver South never forgot or forgave, because we never forced them to at the end of a rifle. They kept their hate for the Union alive for all these years.

The plantation owners of old were essentially feudal lords in terms of wealth and influence, so a quasi-monarchy is on brand.