The present-day Republican Party is descended from the "Whig Party", and formed mostly out of an opposition to slavery and its expansion. Although it should be noted the present day Republicans barely resemble the original Republicans.
I think I would live under a monarchy, one simple flow of power (kind of). One leader for a long time until their next kin reigns.
To inspire readers to view solecism from a different perspective, seeing it from a more primal and basic standpoint. It tried to shift the attention away from the abstraction of human technology and thinking and expose the bare bones philosophy of the economic system.