Precisely. There are countries, working under very similar constraints to modern day US, that are trying, and succeeding, with other arrangements. This should

Precisely. There are countries, working under very similar constraints to modern day US, that are trying, and succeeding, with other arrangements. This should be the focus of the compare and contrast because it's a valuable comparison. I've seen a few of these, Monty Python-esque, comparisons recently. There was one in the Guardian that asserted (wildly incorrectly) that female life expectancy had decreased since the 19C. If I was prone to paranoia, I'd be concerned that they are planted by folk that want the status quo and are making these cartoonish comparisons to make it easy to lampoon.