3 reasons the American Revolution was a Mistake

Vox ^ | July 1, 2016 | Dylan Matthews

[IronJack]

Is that an actual human being???? Not some drawing they found on a drunken anime illustrator’s floor?

[reg45]

Churchill inherited his best qualities from his American mother, Jenny Jerome.

[FirstFlaBn]

Large scale cotton production by slaves on plantations provided the capital for the industrial development of the country. Not just the capital, but the attendant development of finance, logistics, and engineering which was then applied to other types of manufacturing.

The heyday of American domination of the world cotton market only lasted from about 1830-60. Had this narrow window been missed, the US would have been a backwater that for the most part missed out on industrial development.

Without cotton textile production spawning economic development, there would have been little need for the waves of immigration in the late 19th Century. Thus, descendants of those immigrants can thank their presence here to the Africans’ much higher resistance to malaria.

Most descendants of those Southern slaveowners were already here, so, regardless of how things turned out, would not have languished in overcrowded cities in western Europe.

So, while this guy has it mostly wrong, he is correct about slavery.

[Fungi]

I know what the word means and I used it as an insult. You can’t see the forest for the trees.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Can we please put a ban on postings from commie lib websites like Vox and anyone named “Dylan”? Please.

[Texan5]

This article doesn’t make me sad-it pisses me off that the author is so obviously ignorant-at the very least, a bit of fact checking and reading history would have shown him that the rampant persecution, what he calls ethnic cleansing and enslavement of Native Americans began the minute the Spaniards set boots on land in the Americas with a royal mandate to kick ass and take names-beat the inhabitants into submission or kill them off-whichever was more expedient-steal their treasure and send it back to Spain to finance the war with Britain and the competing interests with France...

France and Britain simply followed along and did the same-it was what competing empires did back then, and they’d have kept doing it until someone finally rebelled-not one of those countries was on a peaceful mission, no matter what the airhead author wants to believe...

[GraceG]

Yeah, I am sure that without the American Revolution example, that Ghandi would have been able to still liberate India....

and all the other colonial powers that liberated themselves and specifically CITED the US as their example....

Spain would still be running south america, and france would still be running large parts of notre america....

What an idiot... This moron is an exacting example of WHY y “Progressives” are nothing more than “Neo-Fuedalists”

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Reading this article made me think the author didn’t get enough love in his life. Seeing his picture makes me understand why.

[Dilbert San Diego]

He praises parliamentary democracy because Britain passed a carbon tax. Which he characterized as needed to literally save the planet. He lost me there........

[reg45]

“If ye love wealth better than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or your arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you,
and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” - Samuel Adams

[RegulatorCountry]

I’m guessing he didn’t think this through far enough to realize that he’s advocating colonialism.

[GraceG]

If I had Time travel technology that could parse multiple timelines, i would be happy as hell to oblige this idiot.

I would find a timeline to this fool’s liking and drop his sorry ass off in it, he could live under the crown in the colonies in the year 2016 with far less technological advancements than we have now and this damned fool would have himself to thank for it as he died from a regular bacterial infection because penicillin wasn’t discovered/invented due tot he stifling environment colonials under the British would lead to...

And as I returned to our timeline after dropping this idiot off, i would be laughing maniacally knowing one less liberal progressive control freak had a whole universe full of karma of his own making dropped upon himself...

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

These people are taught twenty-four seven to hate all American traditions and institutions. The biggest laugh of all is slavery. Note that the institution is closely linked to our ability to separate from an empire, our expansion westward, our political development, the production of great men, the creation of our union of states. In short, expansion, growth and living LIFE! The American of those days were the bright ones, the happy ones, the glorious ones those that made the law for others. Today Americans whine, contract, elect aliens to positions of authority in our society, contract, create demagogues and alien politicians all who are in the process of making the law for us, taking our property and liberty.

[Arrian]

Interesting yet nothing but conjecture based on hopes and wishes.
Firstly, Slavery was an African institution created by chronically warring Black Tribes, during the 5th century, when they decided that there was a buck to be made in selling prisoners rather than killing them; along w/Arab Corsairs as their taxi drivers. Britain and the Colonies came on the scene some 1300 years later. Cold reality!
As for our American Indians; how Britain treated the Hindus and Muslims of the Raj; previewed how they would have behaved here.
The last point about Parliamentary Governance has substance. The concept ‘no confidence’ forcing out a government is powerful as we’ve just seen and Merkel in Germany is about to experience. It would have spared us 16 interminable years of Bush the Buffoon followed by our current Schmuck-in-Chief.

[PubliusMM]

“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.”

And, if a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his a$$ everytime he jumps...

This whole premise leads to nothing but blind conjecture; and, one opinion is as good as the next.

[stocksthatgoup]

We could’ve been part of the EU.

[Moonman62]

Mick Jagger did pretty well with that face.

[ronnietherocket3]

He praises parliamentary democracy because Britain passed a carbon tax. Which he characterized as needed to literally save the planet. He lost me there........

Better is that he praises constitutional monarchies for being more democratic and then turns around and praises them for ramming bills through and disallowing dissent and opposition.

[Iron Munro]

Is there anything bad on the entire planet for which responsibility can’t somehow be traced to the Founding Fathers, America itself, and modern day patriots?

s/

[Iron Munro]

It all began with the breakup of the super-continent Pangaea.