Agreed. A glimpse of our unsustainable future.
And don't forget the
Whiskey Rebellion. According to Wikipedia one of the unintended consequences was the founding of political parties that plague the USofA to this day.
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The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the will and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws, though the whiskey excise remained difficult to collect. The events contributed to the formation of political parties in the United States, a process already underway.
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And if you think about it, it led indirectly to NASCAR.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=moonshine+runners+NASCAR