You know what we've NEVER seen before, AFAIK?
The toppling of a democratic system of government that doesn't revert to something closer to totalitarianism, rather than reform.
Presumably, we're just supposed to repeatedly fall into tyranny, war, and, most likely, a healthy dollop of genocide, until we luck out on our roll and get a utopia?!
Or, alternately, maybe we can get closer over time, through intent, while still maintaining that which does work?!