Hmm. Which then leads me to think - Is there a way to institutionalize the periodic upheaval? Or at least prevent the violence and/or civilizational collapse?

Hmm. Which then leads me to think - Is there a way to institutionalize the periodic upheaval? Or at least prevent the violence and/or civilizational collapse? But, wasn't that part of the point of the US system - getting closer to a periodic / on-going non-violent revolution?