[shadowgovt]

Why? The United States is not Japan. The United States has built its national identity on exceptionalism; regression-to-the-mean reasoning is flawed in that context.

When the United States was founded, the average nation was some flavor of monarchy.

[esseph]

Sounds like we're regressing-to-the-mean, then.

[shadowgovt]

There are certainly quite a few people trying to make that happen. They are opposed by, well, Americans.