3 reasons the American Revolution was a Mistake

Vox ^ | July 1, 2016 | Dylan Matthews

[ladyjane]

This person is an idiot. The world today would look nothing like it does without the inspiration of what happened July 4, 1776

The real idiots are the people voting today.

They may vote to to elect anyone who would give them a cell phone or an EBT card.

Who among us has a price as low as a cell phone?

[RayChuang88]

The VERY why the American colonies decided to break from the British was simple: the British wanted to tax the Americans to pay for the cost of the Seven Years' War, as the French and Indian Wars were known outside the American colonies. If Parliament weren't stooges for King George III and actually bothered to heed the advice of what William Pitt the Elder and his son said about the poor treatment of the American colonists by the British government, we would have never gotten an American Revolution in the first place, but instead would have become a country akin to Canada by the 1810's.

Small wonder when the Rebellions of 1837 in Canada happened, the British government--learning from that bad experience with the American colonies--sent John Lambton, the first Earl of Durham, to the Canadian colonies to make an assessment of why the rebellions started in the first place. Lord Durham's report set in motion the eventual creation of the Dominion of Canada--the Canada as we know it today--in 1867.

[SunkenCiv]

One of Dylan Matthews' heroes:

"Death to America!"

[submarinerswife]

Matthews want us still under their rule? I don’t get it.

Because England doesn't have a pesky Constitution that irritatingly allows gun rights and the wrong kind of free speech.

[central_va]

Without the the Revolution the “colonies” would have been shut out of the industrial revolution. Thank God for tariffs.

[Borges]

John Marshall was a monster?

[BlackElk]

John Marshall was certainly a monster. The dead hand of Hamiltonian aristocracy and elitism clutching the throat of our country for decades after the Federalists were no more.

[ravenwolf]

I doubt if it matters what we should have done since it was Gods power which handed this nation over to us.

Also i don`t see how any conclussion can be reached at least until all of the book has been read and i am still strugling with that.