Maybe not the disaster per se but being able to discuss it. If it hadn’t been that it would have been something else. The problem with stifling dissent for decades is when you finally are allowed to speak up, complaints ring harder.
The USSR had a lot of problems, same as the US did does.
I just worry that we’re heading down the same path - constitutional convention / constitution rewriting, followed by unrest. Pick where you live carefully, I think people who wake up as citizens of Alabama may regret it deeply.
