The thing you have to realise about a Jeffersonian revolution is that it does not necessarily need to result in the destruction of the institutions of the state... just the people in charge of it at the time. This has actually happened a few times in your history... and often without violence (though not always... the change that happened in the thirties was accompanied by quite a bit of violence, for example... the one in the sixties in the US southeast was pretty violent too). In general, your upper classes have had the intellectual werewithal to realise that squeezing too much resulted in greater assets in the short term and a lynching in the longer term... so that it made more sense not to be too greedy. it's only the current generation of People In Charge (boomers, by and large) that haven't figured this out yet. Will they? That's another question...

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