Well, modern Australia's first elite were bent prison officers, and they left a strong stamp on our political culture. The USA's is unironically a lesser evil...
Discussion
Interesting.
That was, of course, us, the Brits fault.
Sorry 🫂
TBF, most of you weren't even allowed even a symbolic vote at the time.
And the "Enclosure Act" upending of feudal land tenure amounted to robbing most Brits of the land their families had been farming for centuries.
Revolutions from above suck...