Posted on 07/03/2016 10:50:12 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
This July 4, let's not mince words: American independence in 1776 was a monumental mistake. We should be mourning the fact that we left the United Kingdom, not cheering it.
Of course, evaluating the wisdom of the American Revolution means dealing with counterfactuals. As any historian would tell you, this is a messy business. We obviously can't be entirely sure how America would have fared if it had stayed in the British Empire longer, perhaps gaining independence a century or so later, along with Canada.
But I'm reasonably confident a world in which the revolution never happened would be better than the one we live in now, for three main reasons: Slavery would've been abolished earlier, American Indians would've faced rampant persecution but not the outright ethnic cleansing Andrew Jackson and other American leaders perpetrated, and America would have a parliamentary system of government that makes policymaking easier and lessens the risk of democratic collapse.
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Bow down to your masters, slaves.
Where do they find these guys? My God.
You won't find a more wretched hive of scum and villianry.
Ooo, we have a live one here! Shouldn't he have a cup of cocoa and PJs?
He envisions a utopian Royal America complete with a coexist policy towards the American Indians, early abolition of slavery and a Parliamentary government. Talk about cherry-picking and contra-factual perspective, he appears to forget what 1770s Britain was about.
Prior to the Napoleonic Wars, this was close to the recent height of the British Aristocracy and much of them wanted lands and titles for "younger sons" in America. With the push to turn the 13 Colonies from proprietorships into Royal Colonies, their ability to force such privileges here would have been made easy.
Also missing from this idiocy is any matching of behavior that historical Britain had towards Ireland, India and the later African colonies. Princely chaps and behavior, don't you know!
I could go MUCH FURTHER but what is the point? Let this fool dream of the Union Jack, wrapped around his neck!
Hey kid.
Sorry about your face.
The US probably would have ended up as a giant Hudson’s Bay Company, complete with a plethora of Lords and Ladies trampling the citizens with their horse-drawn carriages and and army of mustachioed British drill sergeants to keep the Darkies and dissidents in line. I don’t share the author’s optimistic viewpoint.
If the United States had remained a British colony, millions of American boys would’ve been killed as cannon fodder during World War I.
True. I like Britain, Churchill was a good leader, etc; but why would Matthews want us still under their rule? I don’t get it.
If the U.S. had remained a British colony, something like World War I could have led to a permanent end to the colony at the end of the day.
When you think about it, isn’t that all the U.S. has become anyway — a nation run by corporate interests who own the government?
With out the American Revolution, by 1945 we would all be speaking German.
This crap is like wishing you had given the red head back in high school another shot.
It’s just not worth the energy.
This would have been one of the Tories in 1776 who gladly bared his neck to the yoke. People like him are utterly useless as change agents. Their chains rest on them lightly.
Just another historically ignorant troll. Ignore him.
This POS article should be reported to the admin as “abuse”.
Bloody tory bastard.
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