This is what I hate about so much of apocalyptic fiction. The worst offender is Guillermo Del Toro in The Strain series where they basically just rebuild exactly the same after the brainworm vampires are defeated. My favorite is The Passage series where the vampire apocalypse actually transforms humanity into something closer resembling communism.
Yeah the US sucks but it's always funny to me when y'all on TERF island try to act morally superior as if Brits aren't responsible for colonizing this place and the rest of the world, creating Israel etc. calm the fuck down with this bullshit moral superiority.
Also reform just won so you're totally fucked too.
Biblically accurate pennywise